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Unisphere is a 12-story high, spherical stainless steel representation of the Earth. It is located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the Borough of Queens, New York City. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1412x1620, 1489 KB) The w:Unisphere, attributed to uribe/Uri Baruchin on w:Flickr (image reference) (image source) composed as a tile stitch-up; original image cropped File links The following pages link to this file: Queens Unisphere ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1412x1620, 1489 KB) The w:Unisphere, attributed to uribe/Uri Baruchin on w:Flickr (image reference) (image source) composed as a tile stitch-up; original image cropped File links The following pages link to this file: Queens Unisphere ...
Earth, also known as Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...
Flushing Meadows Park, also sometimes referred to as Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, is located in northern Queens, New York City, USA at the intersection of the Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway. ...
A borough is a local government administrative subdivision used in the Canadian province of Quebec, in some states of the United States, and formerly in New Zealand. ...
Queens is geographically the largest of the five boroughs of New York City in the United States, and the most ethnically diverse county in the U.S. It is coterminous with Queens County in the State of New York and is located on western Long Island. ...
The city is at the center of international finance, politics, entertainment, and culture, and is one of the worlds major global cities (along with London, Tokyo and Paris) with a virtually unrivaled collection of museums, galleries, performance venues, media outlets, international corporations, and stock exchanges. ...
The Unisphere, commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, was conceived and constructed as the Theme Symbol of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. The Theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" and the Unisphere represented the theme of global interdependence. It was dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe." View of the New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 as seen from the observation towers of the New York State pavilion. ...
Designed by famed Industrial Designer Peter Muller-Munk, The Unisphere was donated by the United States Steel Corporation and constructed by that company's American Bridge Division. It's the world’s largest global structure, rising 140 feet and weighing 700,000 pounds. Some sources say the Unisphere weighs 900,000 pounds, a figure which includes the additional weight of its 200-ton inverted tripod base.
Built on the structural foundation that supported the 1939/1940 New York World's Fair's Perisphere, Unisphere is centered in a large, circular reflecting pool and is surrounded by a series of water-jet fountains designed to obscure its tripod pedestal. The effect is meant to make Unisphere appear as if it is floating in space. The Trylon and the Perisphere were the central structures of the New York Worlds Fair of 1939-1940. ...
During the Fair, dramatic lighting at night gave the effect of sunrise moving over the surface of the globe. Additionally, the capitals of nations were marked by uniquely designed lights that held four bulbs each. When one would burn out, another would rotate in place so that the bulbs would not have to be changed during the two-year run of the Fair. Both lighting effects are no longer in operation.
 The newly-built Unisphere in the glory of the 1964/1965 World's Fair. Three large orbit rings of stainless steel encircle Unisphere at various angles. These orbit rings represent the tracks of Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth and Telstar, the first active communications satellite. America was at the height of the Space Age when Unisphere was constructed, and the rings serve as reminders of America's early space achievements. Image File history File links Photograph of the New York Worlds Fair 1964/1965 as viewed from the Observation Towers of the New York State Pavilion. ...
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (Russian: Юрий ÐлекÑеевич Гагарин; March 9, 1934 – March 27, 1968), was a Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first human to travel into space. ...
This article is about the astronaut. ...
Earth, also known as Terra, and (mostly in the 19th century) Tellus, is the third-closest planet to the Sun. ...
The original Telstar had a roughly spherical shape. ...
U.S. military MILSTAR communications satellite A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to comsat) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purposes of telecommunications. ...
In 1989, the New York City Parks Department announced a multi-million dollar rehabilitation of Flushing Meadows-Corona Park. Among the projects was a complete restoration of the Unisphere. Begun in late 1993 and completed on May 31, 1994, the project included numerous structural repairs and removal of years worth of grime which had accumulated on the steel. The fountains, which had been shut off since the 1970s, were replaced, and new floodlighting was installed. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
On May 10, 1995, the Unisphere was given official landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. It is the only officially designated landmark in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park.
The Unisphere is the "unofficial" symbol of the Borough of Queens, NY.
The Unisphere has been featured in the hit movie Men in Black, as well as the opening credits of the television sitcom The King of Queens. It was also the finishing point of The Amazing Race 1 when Rob & Brennan are the winners. Men in Black is a 1997 science fiction comedy action film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, starring Tommy Lee Jones, Will Smith and Vincent DOnofrio. ...
A sitcom or situation comedy is a genre of comedy performance originally devised for radio but today typically found on television. ...
The King of Queens is an American situation comedy series that debuted in 1998 and is still running as of 2005, and will return in the Monday lineup for the 2005-2006 season. ...
The Amazing Race (now referred to as The Amazing Race 1) was the first installment of the reality television show, The Amazing Race. ...
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