This article is a list of the largest spherical buildings in the world. In order to qualify for inclusion, the spherical construction for each entry must...

The Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST; Chinese: 五百米口径球面射电望远镜), nicknamed Tianyan (天眼, lit. "Sky's/Heaven's Eye"), is a radio telescope...

December 2009 This image, when published in December 2009, was the largest fully spherical panoramic photo in the world. It is 192,000 pixels wide and 96...

that are shaped like part of a sphere, but other shapes are sometimes used in optical devices. The most common non-spherical type are parabolic reflectors...

board Axel Carlander and Knut Johansson Mark, following the invention of the spherical ball bearing by engineer Sven Gustaf Wingquist. He was an operations...

(colloquially called Globen), a multi-sport arena and one of the largest spherical buildings in the world and the nearby indoor arena Hovet. Besides the...

satisfactory image. The potential advantages of using parabolic mirrors, primarily reduction of spherical aberration with no chromatic aberration, led...

total of 190,000 m2 gross floor area. Its fourth floor has recently been added to keep up with demand. The newly renovated city center has spherical skylights...

portal List of tallest buildings in Shanghai List of tallest freestanding structures in the world List of the world's tallest structures List of towers...

Is the World's Largest Spherical Structure—And an Engineering Marvel". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved February 4, 2024. "World's largest LED screen makes...

and the main building. It is the largest art museum in the country and one of the most important museums worldwide. Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria-Hungary...

in Central Asia and its central pavilion, Nur Alem, is the largest spherical building in the world. The two-millionth visitor was registered on 7 August...

Spherical IMO type B LNG tanks are spherical in shape. Most Moss type vessels have four or five tanks. The outside of the tanks have a thick layer of...

Massachusetts. The building houses the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (EAPS). It is one of the tallest buildings in Cambridge. The...

Arena was the largest spherical building on Earth until September 29, 2023 and took two and a half years to build. It has a diameter of 110 metres (360 ft)...

It, Hugh Kenner wrote, "Tables of chord factors, containing as they do the essential design information for spherical systems, were for many years guarded...

The Amazon Spheres are three spherical conservatories comprising part of the Amazon headquarters campus in Seattle, Washington, United States. Designed...

direction of the shortest possible path from a place to the Kaaba, and allows the exact calculation (hisab) of the qibla using a spherical trigonometric...

have entered large-scale production, including spherical puzzles and architectural recreations. A range of jigsaw puzzle accessories, including boards,...

state-of-the-art in large structure engineering. (See the List of tallest buildings and structures in the world and list of largest buildings in the...

the lobby of Building 7, at the western end of the "Infinite Corridor", which forms the east-west axis of the main group of buildings. Buildings 1–8 are...

model of Earth or other astronomical body. Globe may also refer to: The globe, an alternative name for Earth Any other spherical or roughly spherical object...

Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat". Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 18 October 2012. See List of largest church buildings in the...

Hall and the RCA Building were submitted to the New York City Department of Buildings in August 1931, by which time both buildings were to open in 1932...

ceiling (excl. lantern) Architecture portal List of largest domes List of Roman domes "Basilica of Our Lady of Peace Yamoussoukro". EMPORIS GMBH. Archived...

definitions of planet and dwarf planet require that a Sun-orbiting astronomical body has undergone the rounding process to reach a roughly spherical shape,...

description of Samano 1526. The Guancavilcas large rafts were in their black-colored vessels, hands and stone metate for grinding grains, spherical stone weights...

found in the Wiener Prater is the Republik Kugelmugel (Republic of Kugelmugel), a spherical micronation. The Wiener Prater also houses a planetarium and...

Prajapati on the life cycle of the butterfly. Science On a Sphere. A spherical projection system created by NOAA providing shows of 30 minutes duration for...

1892, the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Americas, and a spherical time capsule was placed on top of the monument. In 1992, the...