New York State Pavilion
Today, the New York State Pavilion is perhaps more impressive than it was during the World’s Fair. The Pavilion was constructed for the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster.
The New York State Pavilion also included the adjacent “Theaterama,” which exhibited pop art works by Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein among others. Proposals to turn it into an air-and-space museum or incorporate it into a new World’s Fair in Queens for 2015 have been abandoned.
The pavilion consisted of an open-air, elliptical structure called the Tent of Tomorrow, a theater in the round, and three towers topped by circular platforms. An over-sized map of the state of New York, which is made up of 567 mosaic terrazzo panels weighing about 400 lbs.
The smallest tower was 18 meters (59 feet) tall and housed a restaurant, while the middle and tallest towers-45 meters (147 feet) and 68 meters (223 feet)-contained observation decks.
Suspended on cables, the roof stretched between 16 tall concrete pylons, with riveted steel.
