Ask Geoffrey: A ‘Pipe Dream’ of the 1893 World’s Fair
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Geoffrey Baer explores an eccentric architect’s wacky proposal for the World’s Fair.
An ambitious Chicago architect took Daniel Burnham’s admonition to make no small plans to heart and he planned for an 1893 World’s Fair building big enough to hold the whole thing! Geoffrey Baer has the story of an outrageous building that might have been.
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Ask Geoffrey: A ‘Pipe Dream’ of the 1893 World’s Fair
Clip: 5/10/2017 | 7m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
An ambitious Chicago architect took Daniel Burnham’s admonition to make no small plans to heart and he planned for an 1893 World’s Fair building big enough to hold the whole thing! Geoffrey Baer has the story of an outrageous building that might have been.
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