Refreshment Stand — Architecture in Queens

Refreshment Stand

Architecture 📍 Queens, US Hidden Architecture
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About Refreshment Stand

In 1964, the restlessly creative Lundy designed a series of temporary, inflatable snack bars for the New York World's Fair. Call them what you want- “space flowers,” “bubble pavilions,” or “hot air balloons”- the small, floating structures garnered universal acclaim and became symbols of the fair's Space Age spirit. A collaborative effort between Lundy, Vollmer Associates, and Birdair Structures, each tent-like pavilion was crowned with a whimsical fiberglass “air sculpture” resembling a mass of balloons or a bouquet of flowers. Created for the well-known New York City restaurant chain, Brass Rail, the group of tensile canopies with pneumatic clusters floated over the fair grounds like groups of clouds, radical in structure and playful in shape. En 1964, el incansablemente creativo Lundy diseñó una serie de bares inflables temporales para la Feria Mundial de Nueva York. Llámenlos como quieran: “flores espaciales”, “pabellones de burbujas” o “globos aerostáticos”. Estas pequeñas estructuras flotantes obtuvieron reconocimiento universal y se convirtieron en símbolos del espíritu de la era espacial de la feria. En una colaboración entre Lundy, Vollmer Associates y Birdair Structures, cada pabellón, con forma de tienda de campaña, estaba coronado por una caprichosa “escultura aérea” de fibra de vidrio que se asemejaba a una masa de globos o a un ramo de flores. Creado para la conocida cadena de restaurantes neoyorquina Brass Rail, el grupo de marquesinas tensadas con grupos neumáticos flotaba sobre el recinto ferial como grupos de nubes, con una estructura radical y una forma divertida. Lundy’s low-budget, imaginative snack bars proved to be the rare architectural success of an otherwise eclectic and disjointed fair.

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