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The “Tent of Tomorrow”, an ironic circus tent, encloses a ?350’ by 250’ elliptical area, a form influ

Governor Nelson Rockefeller commissioned Philip Johnson to design New York State’s pavilion on the fa

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Three disk shaped observation towers reach a height of 226 feet.? A twenty second ride in a glass “Sk

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A double-diaphragm of steel cables slope gently down to a smaller central ring, giving the roof a con

Notes: [1] After the World’s Fair the Pavilion was used for large concerts and as a roller skating ri

Johnson/Burgee architects were engaged for an interior renovation of the Pavilion in 1982. The Theate

The Theatreama, the only enclosed building onsite, featured a slide show panorama of images projects

Upon entering the Tent, visitors traversed an enormous terrazzo road map showing New York’s cities, t

The uncertain future of the New York State Pavilion is a topic of hot debate as its fiftieth annivers

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Rising 100 feet, sixteen slip-formed hollow concrete columns, 12’8” in diameter, support a “bicycle w

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With the theme of “Man’s Achievement on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe,” the 19-65 World’

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It is rare to find an architectural project whose history makes such strange bedfellows as the New Yo