page_title: Rose Center for Earth and Space
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Rose Center for Earth and Space / Design
caption_attribution_description: American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
context_page_description: The Rose Center for Earth and Space is a part of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The Center's complete name is The Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space. The main entrance is located on the northern side of the museum on 81st Street near Central Park West in Manhattan's Upper West Side. Completed in 2000, it includes the new Hayden Planetarium, the original of which was opened in 1935 and closed in 1997. Neil deGrasse Tyson is its first and, to date, only director.
context_section_description: Designed by Polshek and Todd Schliemann, the building consists of a six-story high glass cube enclosing the 87-foot (27 m) illuminated Hayden Sphere, which appears to float, although it is actually supported by truss work. Polshek has referred to this work as a "cosmic cathedral".
  The Rose Center and its adjacent plaza are both located on the north face of the Museum; the Center encloses 333,500 square feet (30,980 m²; 3.098 ha) of research, education, and exhibition spaces, in addition to the Hayden Planetarium.  Also located in the facility is the Department of Astrophysics, the newest academic research department in the Museum.  Furthermore, Polshek designed the 1,800-square-foot (170 m²) Weston Pavilion, a 43-foot (13 m) high transparent structure of "water white" glass along the Museum's west facade.  This structure, a small companion piece to the Rose Center, offers a new entry way to the Museum, as well as opening further exhibition space for astronomically-related objects. The planetarium's original magazine, The Sky, merged with another journal, The Telescope, to become the leading astronomy magazine Sky & Telescope.
caption: Close-up of the Scales of the Universe exhibit.
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