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Surrounding a twelve meter radius hemisphere and standing on a 15.5 foot high glass cylinder of radius 70.5 feet is "a striking architectural use of a hyperboloid of revolution of one sheet ... (chosen to reflect) ... the drama and excitement of space exploration." (Martin Gardner, Mathematical Games, On conic sections, ruled surfaces, and other manifestations of the hyperbola, Scientific American, September, 1977, page 39)
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