Remains of " Tent of Tomorrow " 1964 New York World fair unanimously sits in the midst of Corona Meadows Park. Riders of the number 7 Subway can have panoramic view of the park as well as
a distant view to Towers of New York State pavilion, along with few forgotten artifacts, Apollo and Mercury spacecrafts and the Port Authority Heliport building. If you driving along Grand Central Parkway, one can have a closer look to towers and Tent of Tomorrow. After years of distant watching
recently I found myself driving along the service road lead into the entrance of parking lot of Queens Public Theater. The building also was build as part of NYS pavilion, after forgotten quite some time recently went through major renovation and open to Public. There, standing in front of pile of of concrete and steel ruins I impressed with the shear size and volume of these structures.Their aged materiality was increasing the sense of drama. Rusted steel beams, layers of striped cables all floating in the air, perhaps trying to tell a story, a story about past yet their voice lost in the vastness of history.
Central torsion ring, reminiscence of an alien ship comes out of 60's cartoon magazines hold by series
of double layered steel cables. Original roof contained 1, 500 translucent panels was hung between
the cables. The size of the roof has been said was bigger than the football field, largest suspended roof at the time of the Fair. Today these structures offers ghastly, more so a pessimistic look which is still questions the original intent of it's main advocator.
*Robert Moses
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