This Just In:
June 5, 2013
The Coast Guard has discovered a great photo we haven't seen before. It shows the entrance to their World's Fair pavilion, which is the same one that ws auctioned off, carted upstate, and eventually repurposed as a summer cabin. It's full of great detail and you can see one of the other pavilions in the background. Click here to view it in high resolution.
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May 25, 2013
The New York Times article Paul & Kirsten wrote about the story behind the relocation of the previously missing third structure is now up! Read it online here. (It will appear in print in the Sunday May 26th paper.)
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May 15, 2013
We're working on an article about the pavilions for the New York Times Metropolitan section. Stay tuned for further details!
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September 13, 2011
We were kindly invited to visit the previously missing relocated pavilion, now a summer cabin in the northern Adirondacks, by the family who owns it. Paul wrote about our wonderful visit over on Uni Watch.
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January 16, 2011
Italy-based design & architecture magazine Domus has released a guide to New York City architecture as an iPhone app—and it includes the Candela Structures. You can read Kirsten's review of it at Catasterist.
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November 15, 2010
Here's a first, at least for us: photos showing early design models of the structures. They were taken in 1962 and published in a World's Fair Progress Report dated Jan. 24, 1963. The captions indicate that Peter Schladermundt's early concept for the structures — and for the World's Fair Marina as a whole — was significantly different from how things eventually turned out. It isn't clear whether this was due to a change in creative direction on Schladermundt's part or more banal factors like budgetary constraints.
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November 15, 2010
The folks at the Parks Department had assured us that they'd update the badly erroneous sign near the structures. That was more than a year ago, but nothing ever happened (big surprise). So we recently decided to take matters into our own hands. Much better now.
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November 2, 2010
The missing third structure is alive and well in the Adirondacks. More information coming soon!
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July 11, 2010
We've just learned about a fantastic 1966 research paper about the design, manufacture, and assembly of the Candela Structures and two other attractions at the 1964 World's Fair. If only we'd known about this paper when we were creating the exhibit! The portion about the Candela Structures (referred to in the paper as "Marina Structures") begins near the bottom of the eighth page.
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July 11, 2010
We've added the Candela Structures to Google Maps. Why not add your own review?
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June 30, 2010
A column by Kirsten about a recent visit to the Candela Structures was published by the Architectural League's Urban Omnibus blog.
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January 23, 2010
Candela souvenirs — including T-shirts — are available in our Zazzle store.
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