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Article: Universe Encased at Rose Center.(Rose Center for Earth and Space)(Brief Article)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- April 1, 2000
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The new Rose Center for Earth and Space recently opened at New York's American Museum of Natural History. Designed by James Stewart Polshek and Todd H. Schliemann of the New York-based Polshek Partnership Architects, the $210-million center, attached to the museum's north side, looks like a glass cube containing a giant bubble that is white during the day and bathed in blue light at night. The sphere is supported by three pairs of steel columns in such a way that it appears to hover within the structure. The glass curtain walls, supported by a skeleton of tubular-steel trusses, rise 95 feet from the one-story granite base. They are made of glass that has been purified to ...
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Article: NEW YORK CITY ITS POPULARITY SOARS - AND 'NEW' ...
The Boston Globe;
September 24, 2000 ;
700+ words
...If you thought New York City had lost its luster ... Orlando, Fla. "Not only is New York the best restaurant city in ... you'll find the fantastic Rose Center for Earth and Space; and ... in North America; even the New York Police have a new museum ...
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