Queens Museum (New York City, New York)

Built for the 1939-40 World's Fair as the New York City pavilion by noted architect Aymar Embury, II who was one of Robert Moses' favorite designers. The exterior featured colonnades with vast expanses of glass brick punctuated by limestone pilasters trimmed in dark polished granite. Used as the United Nations General Assembly building from 1946-1950, while the permanent home was being built. Reused as the New York City pavilion in the 1964-65 World's Fair. Architect Daniel Chait was called on to make alterations and a scalloped entry awning was added to the east façade with concrete brise-soleil used to screen all of the areas of glass brick. It was converted to The Queens Museum in 1972 with further interior alterations by Rafael Viñoly in 1994.

Features the Panorama of New York City, a huge scale diorama of the entire city left over from the 1964 New York World's Fair and periodically updated with new buildings. Recent alterations to the interior and exterior were made by Grimshaw Architects.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queens_Museum_of_Art
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Coordinates:  40°44'46"N 73°50'49"W

  In this building

  1. Panorama of the City of New York
  2. Relief Map of the New York City Water Supply System
  3. Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass
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  • This was part of the 1939 World's Fair. It was also the first home of the United Nations, when the permanent home was being built.
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