At the New York World's Fair, 1964

The IBM Pavilion covered 5000 m2 in Flushing Meadow, N.Y.

Designed by Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen Associates, the pavilion created the effect of a covered garden, with all exhibits in the open beneath a grove of 10 m high, man-made steel trees. The pavilion was divided into six sections: The "Information Machine," a 27 m high main theater with multiple screen projection; pentagon theaters, where puppet-like devices explained the workings of data processing systems; computer applications area; probability machine; scholar's walk; and a 400 m2 administration building.

Inside IBM’s World’s Fair ‘Egg’

FROM a distance, it looks like the storage tank for the Festival of Gas. But as New York World’s Fair visitors draw nearer, they find themselves in a people trap-IBM’s wonderfully zany exhibit pavilion, featuring the Information Machine.