Berg's dome
The revolutionary concrete ribs from within.
Joe Mabel โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Globetrotter19 โ CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA โ CC BY-SA 2.0 ยท Tim Evanson from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, USA โ CC BY-SA 2.0
Decades of anticipation: a reinforced-concrete dome of 65 metres when 38 was the achieved limit (Rome's Pantheon itself 43) โ its ribs left visible as aesthetic, not cladding, at record cost and speed. Every domed arena and congress hall is its direct descendant โ modern architecture's first practically, not metaphorically.
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The Centennial Hall is the Colosseum of concrete: Max Berg's dome (1913), 65 metres across, was the world's largest concrete dome by double โ an engineering revolution UNESCO named (2006) a pioneering work of twentieth-century architecture, its ribbed interior a six-thousand-seat bowl hosting concerts still (with an interactive exhibition of its story). Its surroundings make the full day: the Pergola's half-circle of climbing columns around the Multimedia Fountain โ Poland's largest, with free summer evening music-and-laser shows โ the Japanese Garden (1913) with red bridge and koi as the shade's jewel, the steel Iglica needle (1948) as gate โ and great Szczytnicki Park embracing all. A quarter-hour tram from the centre โ the golden set: dome and gardens by afternoon, the fountain show at dusk โ with the Zoo and its Africarium across the street for those making it the family's biggest day.
The revolutionary concrete ribs from within.
Music and laser over Poland's largest.
Red bridge and koi as the shade's jewel.
Wystawowa 1, 51-618 Wroclaw