Roughly 3.5 million volumes will be stored on racks in a climate-controlled underground facility that digs down about 50 feet. The glass dome above it will reach 36 feet high, supported on a curving grid of steel. Ceramic patterns on the glass will block the sun, reducing heat gain.
“At least that’s what the engineers tell me,” Jahn said Friday, when I asked if the dome would turn into a sauna, as the Thompson Center infamously did....
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