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New York State Pavilion
Flushing Meadows Corona Park, NY

"Man's achievements on a shrinking globe in an expanding universe."

 

Buildings, like people, pass through time. That passage, regardless of its duration, describes the lives of buildings. This project examines the relatively short life of an extraordinary building that played host to over six million visitors, the New York State Pavilion. Conceived, built and in use as designed for only two years, the Pavilion was witness to one of the most popular events of the 1960s, the New York World’s Fair. However unlike the Fair, the Pavilion and its exhibits reflected the contradictions, doubt, and cultural revolution that would come to characterize post-industrial America.

 

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