Word: cube
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...week, four years and $210 million later, the new Hayden (and the Rose Center for Earth and Space that surrounds it) finally made its debut--and it's already clear that this is not your grandfather's planetarium. First there's the building itself--a 10-story glass-walled cube with an 87-ft. aluminum sphere seemingly floating within it. Then there's the space around the sphere. While the old Hayden had only a handful of faded exhibitions to get visitors into a cosmic mood, the new planetarium is overstuffed with information. "We don't really expect anyone...
When he wanted a design for the 21st century, James Stewart Polshek, architect of the Rose Center, went to the 18th. His solid sphere set in a mostly glass cube has its origins in one of the abiding fantasies of the architectural world: the unbuilt ball that French neoclassical visionary Etienne-Louis Boullee conceived in 1784 as a memorial to Sir Isaac Newton. Boullee knew a simple sphere would state with full authority the grandeur of the cosmos. Polshek knew...
...glass cube, it admits a view of the New York City sky, or as much of it as high-rise, heaven-deprived Manhattan allows. Even the threadwork of exposed cables and clamps that holds the glass in place hints at the tug of forces that bind the universe together. "If you push these comparisons too far, you fall into kitsch," says Polshek. But push them just so, as he does, and you climb to the stars...