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The World Science Center will be built on Broadway between 63rd and 64th Streets, facing the dramatic and beautiful mall of Lincoln Center. The site is convenient to other institutions, business firms and transportation. With the construction off the World Science Center, Broadway at 64th Street will become a world crossroads of business, science and culture.

The Lincoln Center area is not only convenient and attractive, but it will also permit the development and future cooperation between science and the arts. Science has already contributed substantially to the arts, for example: the dating of archeological objects through carbon 14, color television, the development of plastics, new fabrics and other materials of practical and aesthetic value.

The firm of Kahn and Jacobs, Architects, have drawn plans for a visually attractive, wholly functional, office building tower, 30 stories high. This will house The New York Academy of Sciences' offices and provide low cost office space for other non-profit, science-oriented organizations. There will be space in the lobby for scientific displays and banking, dining and printing facilities, as well as a basement parking garage.

Adjoining the tower and constituting an integral part of the architectural whole, will be a 13-story auditorium structure. it will provide a much-needed complex of assembly halls, conference and other meeting facilities which will have a total capacity of 6,500 persons. In it will be a large auditorium seating 1,900 persons.

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