The architects Polshek and Partners and the exhibit designer Ralph Appelbaum Associates have developed futuristic plans for a huge transparent cube containing a spherical planetarium inside and planetary models suspended in midair.Īnother aspect of the design is a three-level parking garage next door - lines of cars often back up into 81st Street waiting for spaces to open up in the museum's lot.īut other groups continue to oppose the destruction of the Planetarium and believe the museum has received a kind of preferential treatment for which private owners would not even hope. Tyson foresees a sophisticated center where a computerized projector can display not just the stars as seen from the Earth, but black holes and other phenomena. For instance, constellations were once a major part of astronomy texts but are now barely noticed.ĭr.
Neil Tyson, the director, says that since 1935, the field of astronomy has profoundly changed. Now the American Museum of Natural History believes that the Hayden Planetarium is out of date and wants to replace it by the year 2000.ĭr. There was no other architectural criticism of the Hayden Planetarium, but its show of 9,000 stars of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres drew rave reviews and millions of visitors, as did its first-floor orrery, with moving models of the planets out to the orbit of Saturn. Guide to New York City,'' who described it as ''among the most interesting examples of modern functional architecture.'' BUT it was good enough to fool the writers of the 1939 ''W.P.A.
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