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- The Frederick
Phineas & Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space totals
333,500 square feet — the equivalent of a major museum
in its own right. It increases the total square footage of
the American Museum of Natural History by approximately 25%.
- The Rose
Center is clad in the largest suspended glass curtain wall
in the U.S. — the curtain wall hangs from the roof of
the facility, supported by columns, and anchored by 1,400
steel "spiders" and 4,100 bolts.
- Almost
an acre of glass (36,000 square feet) — in 736 individual
panes — was used to construct the Rose Center's 95-foot-high
cube. The average pane of glass is 5-by-10.5-feet and weighs
450 pounds.
- There
are approximately two and a half miles of rod rigging for
the curtain wall.
- The glass
curtain wall and the Hayden Sphere will be cleaned and maintained
using a roof hoist carriage with a 30-foot boom and an electric
bosun's chair (or workbasket).
- The volume
of the "cube" is 1,904,303 cubic feet.
- The black
"twinkling" floors of the Rose Center are made of recomposed
stone embedded with Czechoslovakian glass shards.
- The Hayden
Sphere weighs four million pounds, or 2000 tons.
- The Hayden
Sphere is 87 feet in diameter and its circumference is 273.3
feet (the Museum's Blue Whale in the Hall of Ocean Life could
fit inside).
- The volume
of the Sphere is 344,616 cubic feet.
- The Hayden
Sphere is clad in 2,474 fabricated aluminum panels containing
5,599,663 acoustic-enhancing perforations.
- The Hayden
Sphere is supported by three pairs of inclined columns measuring
from two feet seven inches (top) to three feet nine inches
(middle) to two feet seven inches (bottom) in diameter.
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