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    New York State Pavilion
    New York State Pavilion
    New York State Pavilion
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    New York State Pavilion

    By Christian Kellberg

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    The New York State Pavilion is a legacy of the 1964 1965 New York World s Fair. It is located in the southwest corner of Flushing Meadow Corona Park, where the Long Island Expressway crosses over the Grand Central Parkway. From these freeways alone, the pavilion is seen by hundreds of thousands of motorists per day and is a symbol of the Empire State, the Eiffel Tower of Queens. From the observation towers that offer spectacular views of Queens and beyond; to the expansive Tent of Tomorrow, which showcased the world s largest map (of New York State); to the stunning Queens Theatre in the Park, New York State Pavilion is an insightful look at this iconic landmark, with many spectacular historic color photographs, published here for the first time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateOct 13, 2014
    ISBN9781439647783
    New York State Pavilion
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    Christian Kellberg

    Christian Kellberg is privileged to have been part of a volunteer effort to paint the New York State Pavilion mezzanine over the last three years. He has photographed many neighborhoods and their landmarks and is the photographer of much of the content in this book.

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      New York State Pavilion - Christian Kellberg

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      INTRODUCTION

      The New York State pavilion, a legacy building from the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair, is located in the southwest corner of Flushing Meadow Corona Park, close to where the Long Island Expressway crosses over the Grand Central Parkway. From these freeways alone, the pavilion is seen by 390,000 motorists per day and is a symbol of the Empire State, the Eiffel Tower of Queens. At 252 feet to the top of its aviation light, the pavilion is by far the tallest structure for miles; it is an exception to the height limits imposed by La Guardia Airport on its neighbors.

      The pavilion has three parts, unified by a common circular theme: (1) The observation towers offer spectacular views across the borough of Queens, from the Whitestone and Throgs Neck Bridges to the Manhattan skyline. The four 60-foot-diameter observation decks, arranged atop a group of three slender towers, have a flying saucer–like appearance. (2) The Tent of Tomorrow is a football field–sized event plaza and is surrounded by sixteen 115-foot-tall columns, which support the world’s largest prestressed cable roof. Covering the cable roof was a 305-by-225-foot oval expanse of translucent fiberglass panels, arranged in a four-color pattern. A street-level circular plaza, under the tent (roof), contains the world’s largest map, a terrazzo-tiled, 130-by-166-foot scaled reproduction of the 1964 New York State Texaco road map. (3) Theaterama was a 100-foot-diameter, 44-foot-tall building that showed a film tour of New York State using the interior wall as a 360-degree screen. During the fair, 10 large Pop Art displays, some up to 20 feet across, by emerging Pop artists, were spaced along the outside wall of the Theaterama.

      By the time planning for the world’s fair was under way, the pavilion’s architect Philip Johnson was already well established. His portfolio included private residences, galleries, university buildings, and a connection to then New York governor Nelson Rockefeller by way of commissions for the guesthouse of Blanchette Rockefeller, wife of John D. Rockefeller III, on East Fifty-second Street (1950), the Museum of Modern Art’s Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (1953), and the Nelson Rockefeller Art Gallery in Seal Harbor, Maine (1957). Philip Johnson’s designs for the New York State pavilion and the New York State Theater, in Lincoln Center, were selected in February 1962 to showcase the state’s prowess in art and architecture for the world’s fair. Both the pavilion and theater were completed with state funds, and ownership for both buildings was transferred to the City of New York at the conclusion of the fair. From October 18, 1965, through June 2, 1967, the world’s fair site was closed to the public and returned to its configuration as Flushing Meadow Corona Park. During this period, 170 pavilions were demolished or disassembled; only the paved walkways and stand-alone sculptures were left behind. The park’s 646 acres were landscaped to cover any foundation remnants below the required three-foot removal depth. Only the following five pavilions from the 1964–1965 New York World’s Fair were kept as permanent structures: the New York State pavilion, the Hall of Science, the Port Authority Heliport, the United States pavilion, and the Singer Bowl. After the June 2, 1967, reopening, the New York State pavilion saw only limited use for events and was essentially abandoned until the Tent of Tomorrow rotunda was leased as a roller skate rink, opening on St. Patrick’s Day 1970. The successful venture helped to attract up to 100,000 visitors per year to the pavilion, but the rink was shut down in July 1974 amid concerns that some of the 1,488 colorful translucent roof panels had become loose. The novel fiberglass panels were eventually removed, but the skating rink never returned. This was the last adaptive reuse of the largest part of the New York State pavilion.

      What has found a reuse for most of its post-fair years has been the Theaterama part of the

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