¶ Dome Over Manhattan
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Dome Over Manhattan:
“When the artist made an airbrush picture of the big dome over Manhattan I saw that the Queen Mary was clearly visible at her dock in the North River but the masts of the Queen Mary were not visible at that distance. So I figured that if each compression member in the big dome spanning the island at 42nd street were just the size of the Queen Mary’s mast, then all the struts would be approximately invisible from the ground and there would be enough steel in the Queen Mary to provide all the steel needed for the big dome.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at Penn Bell Videotaping, Philadelphia, 20 Jan’75
