Word: pleasuredomes
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...Pleasuredom. Local precedent for the Fair builders was San Francisco's Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, a glittering tour de jorce by the smartest Beaux-Arts architects of the day. Held to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal. it appropriately linked East Coast and West Coast on its board of architects. Tenderly remembered in San Francisco, the Panama-Pacific Exposition had no influence for the good on U. S. architecture...
...them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill themselves advancing the modern cause in new materials and organic form. New York City's 1939 Fair already had a lien on the World of Tomorrow. Chairman Kelham and crew therefore plumped for a pleasuredom on "Treasure Island," an imaginative. quasi-Oriental "Never-Never Land...
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