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Hawaiʻi State Capitol — Volcano-Crater Architecture

Honolulu, HI

Hawaiʻi's capitol rejects the usual domed statehouse design: its open-air atrium evokes a volcanic crater, cone-shaped legislative chambers represent volcanoes, and a surrounding pool symbolizes the Pacific. The building's symbolic architecture is unusually literal and island-specific.

Filed under roadside oddities: giant objects, odd monuments and things built for no clear reason.

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Source: capitol.hawaii.gov

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