Word: ellipsoids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRENCH PAVILION will consist mainly of three buildings looking like a children's game in their pure geometrical forms: a rectangle housing Maxim's restaurant, an immense egg-shaped ellipsoid (the largest structural ellipse ever built), which will shelter a 1,500-seat theater for the Folies-Bergére, and a pyramid in which visitors will view "The Treasures of Versailles," a huge collection of paintings and art objects...