aTypical Joe: a gay New Yorker living in the rural South
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
AquaDom: the world’s largest cylinder aquarium (reprise)
For some reason this old post is getting a lot of traffic so I figured I’d push it back up to the top...
In Atlanta they’ve got a restaurant at the top of The Westin Peachtree Plaza and the Georgia Aquarium. In Berlin they’ve got both in one:
Placed at the lobby of the Radisson SAS Hotel in Berlin, the 25 meters high AquaDom is the largest cylindrical aquarium ever built. Filled with about 900,000 liters of seawater, it contains some 2600 fish of 56 species… Guests and visitors are able to travel through the aquarium in a glass-enclosed elevator to reach a sightseeing point and restaurant under the glass roof. Two full-time divers are responsible for the care and feeding of the fish and maintenance of the aquarium.
Here’s a Lucite press release that describes how it was made.
