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Unisphere History: The Unisphere found its perch in Queens for the 1964-1965 World's Fair. The US Steel Corporation built it as a symbol of world peace. Since then the Unisphere has welcomed visitors, soccer players, museum and theater goers, Mets fans, and the people of Queens, New York.
Unisphere Design: The Unisphere is 140 feet high and 120 feet in diameter. It weighs 900,000 pounds. Since the continents are the heaviest parts of the all-steel sculpture and they aren't evenly distributed, the Unisphere is top heavy. Very top heavy. It was carefully engineered to account for the unbalanced mass
| Title: | Sun through the Earth |
| Username: | 
raul_naja |
| Uploaded: | 8 Nov 2007 - 2:34 PM |
| Camera: | Pentax K10D |
| Lens: | 28-80 |
| Recording media: | digital |
| Tags: | Architecture, General, Landmark, Landscape, Landscape / travel, Sculpture |
| Votes: | 4 |
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