Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition
Coney Island: The Parachute Pavilion Competition
$29.95
Ryan, Zoe and Jonathan Cohen-Litant
eds. Pap. New York, 2007
Book ID: 72947
In an effort to revitalize the Coney Island area, the Van Alen Institute, in concert with the Coney Island Development Corporation, held the Parachute Pavilion Competition, a contest to design a year-round pavilion in the shadow of the Parachute Jump, a landmark built for the 1939 World's Fair. In this book, all 864 submissions from the feasible to the fantastic received from around the world are presented.
176 pp., 132 color, 14 B&W illus.