Whitehorse, Yukon Ter., Canada: Bicycle Wheel Rim Dome (Gone)
15 feet wide and tall, a geodesic dome made entirely of bicycle rims stood in the front yard of its creator. Was overgrown and collapsing by 2022; gone by 2024.
- Directions:
- South side of town. On the east side of Lewes Blvd midway between Takhini St. and Alsek Rd.
- Hours:
- Gone by 2024.
- Status:
- Gone
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No longer there.
[Ann, 06/18/2024]
On a busy boulevard in the Riverdale neighborhood in Whitehorse stands a giant, lace-like dome built entirely of bicycle wheel rims by local artist Phillipe LeBlond. LeBlond owned a bike shop for a time and amassed a huge number of discarded wheels, which he then used to create several different structures (domes and fences), before assembling them into the five-meter-wide dome that stands in his front yard. The dome also houses a table and hassocks built of rims, and shelters a live birch tree that is clearly learning to negotiate the space as it grows.
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The 15-foot-diameter dome can be entered through a porthole -- a rim stripped of its spokes.