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Passport Friday thing @ Queens Museum of Art
Image by jann_on
Passport Fridays are a series of summer performances, currently sponsored by Target.
Queens Museum of Art:
Architect: Aymar Embury II
Opened: 1939
Renovated 1964 by Daniel Chait.
Renovated in 1994 by Rafael Viñoly.
Expansion scheduled in 2013, under the helm of Grimshaw Architects with Ammann & Whitney as engineers.
"Built to house the New York City Pavilion at the 1939 World’s Fair, where it housed displays about municipal agencies. . . . It is now the only surviving building from the 1939/40 Fair. After the World’s Fair, the building became a recreation center for the newly created Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The north side of the building, now the Queens Museum, housed a roller rink and the south side offered an ice rink. . . . From 1946 to 1950 . . . it housed the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations. . . . In 1972 the north side of the New York City Building was handed to the Queens Museum of Art (or as it was then known, the Queens Center for Art and Culture)."
The other half of the building was an ice-skating rink from 1939–2009.
www.queensmuseum.org
www.queensmuseum.org/about/aboutbuilding-history
twitter.com/QueensMuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Museum_of_Art
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vimeo.com/queensmuseum
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aymar_Embury_II
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammann_%26_Whitney
grimshaw-architects.com
artsengaged.com/bcnasamples/chapter-fifteen-being-good-ne...
In the background is the New York State Pavilion of the 1964 World's Fair.
Principal architect: Philip Johnson
Built: 1962–64
Architects: Philip Johnson & Richard Foster Architects (Zion & Breen Associates, Landscape Architects), 1964. (1982 Interior renovation Johnson/Burgee Architects)
Engineer: Lev Zetlin.
Contractor: Thompson-Starret Construction
Structural Engineers: Nicholson Company
"It consists of three components of reinforced concrete and steel construction: the 'Tent of Tomorrow,' Observation Towers, and Theaterama."
Fell into ruin in the 1970s, given landmark status in 2009.
“The New York State Pavilion at the 1964-65 World’s Fair is now a ruin. In a way, the ruin is even more haunting than the original structure. There ought to be a university course in the pleasure of ruins.”
—Philip Johnson (1906–2005), in his prologue to the book ‘The Architecture of Philip Johnson’ (2002)
articles.nydailynews.com/2009-09-16/local/17930203_1_hist...
www.galinsky.com/buildings/nypavilion/index.htm
www.newyorkstatepavilion.org/revivenewyorkstate.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964–1965_New_York_World's_Fair_N...
What's it worth?
Image by Alan Cleaver
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UI Children's Hospital - Street View
Image by givetoiowa
When completed in 2016, the new hospital—located north of the Pomerantz Family Pavilion on Hawkins Drive—will be a dramatic, 14-story oval-shaped building overlooking Kinnick Stadium to the west and the University of Iowa campus to the east.
