Rescuing a Futuristic Icon of the Past

“Philip Johnson’s steel and concrete fantasia in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, designed as the New York State Pavilion for the 1964-65 World’s Fair, has been crumbling for decades. Now it is finally getting some attention… The Queens Theater in the Park — which produces performances geared to the borough’s immigrant communities — is planning to build an 8,000-square-foot addition to its space, a small section of the pavilion that was called the Theaterama during the World’s Fair… But the shiny new addition will also call attention to the blighted condition of [the huge ‘Tent of Tomorrow], which appears to be on the verge of collapse.”