Pacific Science Center
Cluster of soaring, arched concrete pavilions circling reflecting pools, built for a World's Fair.
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This guide to Pacific Science Center in Seattle follows architect Minoru Yamasaki as he tore up his original design for the nineteen sixty-two World's Fair after hearing about a taller Space Needle going up nearby. It traces his path from a childhood on Yesler Hill and canneries in Alaska, through the wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans and how he sheltered his own parents, to the arched, cathedral-inspired towers now framing the reflecting pools around you. Look up at the ribbed concrete arches, precast off-site and trucked twenty-five miles into the fairground.
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