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The Mall and Bethesda Terrace are the main formal elements in Olmsted and Vaux’s design for Central Park, flanking the 40-foot-wide Mall are quadruple rows of American Elms. The elm was one of the designers’ favorite trees, providing a living cathedral ceiling high over the walkway. The Mall is breathtaking in any season. In the spring, the sun filtering through the translucent leaves seems to tint the atmosphere a lime-green. As the canopy matures over the summer, it creates a cool dense shade for the landscape below. When autumn’s yellow and gold leaves fall, they reveal the bold architecture of the trees’ skeletons. A fresh winter snow creates a lace veil in the black and white tree branches.

Sam Rohn :: Location Scout :: Panoramic Photography :: New York City

Tags: 360° Panorama, HDR, Manhattan, Nature, New York City, Park, Virtual Tour

Originally built in 1935, the Hayden Planetarium was rebuilt in 2000 as part of the Rose Center for Earth & Space, itself part of the American Museum of Natural History

The Center houses the most sophisticated space projector in the world, the Zeiss Mark IX, and the Digital Dome System, consisting of the latest SGI Onyx 2 computer and a Trimension video display with 7 coordinated Barco 12″ Cathode Ray Tube high resolution video projectors

Sam Rohn :: Location Scout :: Panoramic Photography :: New York City

Tags: 360° Panorama, Architecture, HDR, Manhattan, Modern, Museum, New York City, Night

Grand Army Plaza :: Brooklyn :: New York City

Originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, but renamed in 1926, it is perhaps best known for the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Memorial Arch, Brooklyn’s version of the Arc de Triomphe. It is also the site of the Bailey Fountain, and a monument to John F. Kennedy,

Sam Rohn :: Location Scout :: 360° Panoramic Photography :: New York City

Tags: 360° Panorama, Architecture, Brooklyn, HDR, Neoclassical, New York City, Night, Park

Tent of Tomorrow :: New York State Pavilion :: 1964 World’s Fair :: New York City

designed by Philip Johnson for the 1964 worlds fair, the floor of the new york state pavilion contains the worlds largest terrazzo map.

neglected for the last 40 years, the map is now slowly undergoing restoration…

www.thereallybigmap.com

www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/nyregion/07map.html

Sam Rohn :: Location Scout :: 360° Panoramic Photography :: New York City

Tags: 360° Panorama, Architecture, HDR, Modern, New York City, Park, Queens, Virtual Tour