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World’s Fairs with their legacies

United Kingdom Architecture News - May 05, 2015 - 09:49   2933 views

World’s Fairs with their legacies

The Crystal Palace was the star of London's great exhibition in 1851.Beloved by the public,it was moved after the fair closed to a dreary neighborhood south of the Thames ad was destroyed in a fire in 1936.Image:Paul Furst

World’s fairs exist to provide a glimpse into the future. They showcase technological breakthroughs like the telephone introduced at the 1876 Philadelphia exposition and the diesel engine that chugged along at the Paris fair in 1900, powered by peanut oil, of all things.Fairs also anticipate social utopias through dreamy, aspirational slogans like “Peace Through Understanding,” the theme of the New York World’s Fair in 1964-65, and “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” for Expo Milano 2015in Milan......Continue Reading

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