“It wasn’t intended to last this long,” Pacific Science Center president and CEO Will Daugherty says of the Seattle Center institution that celebrates its 60th birthday on Saturday with a big, futuristic bash.
In the shadow of the Space Needle, PacSci’s “space gothic” white arches have stood with slightly less prominence than their internationally known neighbor since the World’s Fair, when Garfield High School alum Minoru Yamasaki designed the temporary U.S. Science Pavilion. The project helped establish Yamasaki as a force in modern architecture—he’d get tapped to shape New York’s World Trade Center shortly thereafter—and ushered in the Pacific Science Center, which opened the day after the expo’s end on October 22,
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