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Expo 67 at Night

Submitted by Islander800 on Fri, 11/23/2012 - 10:14pm.
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Montreal, 1967. This shot was taken using 35mm Kodachrome with the camera resting on a railing. In the distance, the U.S. pavilion is the Buckminster Fuller dome on the left while the U.S.S.R. pavilion is the brightly-lit dipping roof building on the right. Today, the U.S. pavilion still stands as an indoor arboretum. View full size.

Montreal, 1967. This shot was taken using 35mm Kodachrome with the camera resting on a railing. In the distance, the U.S. pavilion is the Buckminster Fuller dome on the left while the U.S.S.R. pavilion is the brightly-lit dipping roof building on the right. Today, the U.S. pavilion still stands as an indoor arboretum. View full size.

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Fuller on fire

Submitted by davidk on Mon, 11/26/2012 - 10:02pm.

The former U.S. pavilion is actually a museum of the environment, called the Biosphere, owned and run by the federal government. The acrylic skin of the geodesic dome (a three-quarter sphere, 200 feet high), caught fire in a welding accident in 1976 and burned off in half an hour, leaving the steel truss structure intact. It remained empty for almost 20 years.

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