Unisphere is a 12-story
high, spherical stainless steel
representation of the Earth. It
is located in Flushing Meadows
Park in the Borough of Queens,
New York City.
The Unisphere, commissioned to celebrate the beginning of the space age, was conceived and constructed as the Theme Symbol of the 1964/1965 New York World's Fair. The Theme of the World's Fair was "Peace Through Understanding" and the Unisphere represented the theme of global interdependence. It was dedicated to "Man's Achievements on a Shrinking Globe in an Expanding Universe."
