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The Penguin Pool Edition

The writing, perhaps, was on the wall as early as 1970, when the Architect's Journal contacted Lubetkin to congratulate him on the pool becoming officially Grade-I listed, making it a criminal offence to damage or alter it. His statement? "My personal interpretation is that these buildings cry for a world which has never come into being."

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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

The exterior of the Las Vegas Sphere, known as the Exosphere, is a 580,000-square-foot LED display wrapping a 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide spherical structure. This colossal screen is composed of 1.2 million individual "LED pucks," each containing 48 LEDs, to create a dynamic and high-resolution visual experience.

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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

The exterior of the Las Vegas Sphere, known as the Exosphere, is a 580,000-square-foot LED display wrapping a 366-foot-tall, 516-foot-wide spherical structure. This colossal screen is composed of 1.2 million individual "LED pucks," each containing 48 LEDs, to create a dynamic and high-resolution visual experience (translation: blows your got dang socks off).

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The Sphere's $4B Business, explained

One rebuttal — which I happily ascribe to — is to reply with an image of Las Vegas Sphere and say, "yes, we definitely do" build anything beautiful anymore.