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| The Duomo's Dome, Florence (From Wikipedia) |
After Santa Maria del Fiore, the cathedral church in Florence, Italy, announced Neri di Fioravanti as the winner of the dome initial design competition, the design amazed architects and builders and directly provoked constructability questions. It was no wonder. The dome design introduced a number of difficulties due the dome’s height and span. Therefore, when the competition for constructing the dome was announced on August 19, 1418, a huge number of interested architects, masons, and builders pursued this job to solve the perplexing design that people of Florence kept looking at for decades as a mystery (King, 2000). Everyone had to come up with a detailed plan of how the dome is going to be built.
