Impressive architecture The huge hall was originally built as an airship hangar commissioned by the German company CargoLifter AG.
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The shape was designed to accommodate the full volume of the airships and fit around them like an aerodynamic "tailor-made suit". Its gigantic dimensions posed a major challenge for the planners of Siemens subsidiary SIAT. The construction had to be able to withstand snow and rain masses across 70,000 square metres of roofing, and its heating system had to maintain more than five million cubic metres of air at the right temperature. The dimensions of the Dome The Tropical Islands Dome is gigantic. In fact, it is one of the world´s largest self-supporting halls in the world: 360 metres long, 210 metres wide and an incredible 107 metres high. That is big enough to fit the Statue of Liberty in standing up and the Eiffel Tower lying on its side. The Tropical Islands Dome covers an area of 66,000 m², the size of eight football fields. And it is high enough to fit in the whole of Berlin's Potsdamer Platz, with all its skyscrapers.In the 1920s, a huge wooden hangar was built on a remote Norwegian island for a giant airship set to explore the frozen north – and there are still traces of it today. Read my recent piece about the hangar at the top of the world for BBC Future in full below or the original here. It was great to have discovered the story about the hangar while writing my book. In the photo, a huge silver airship floats over a large snowfield. On the sides of the airship are stamped in black capital letters, one word: ITALIA.
The machine itself is dwarfed by the snow-covered mountains that surround it on three sides. Their glaciers glisten in the spring sunshine. In front of it is the sea, full of floating chunks of ice.Ĭables hang down from the sides of the craft like the antenna of an insect. A multitude of tiny stick-like figures await their orders below. In front of the dirigible is a very large, strange-looking construction. It has no roof, but two sides that look like the giant wooden trestle bridges that you see in Westerns movies.
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