Frank Lloyd Wright's only planetarium restored in Florida

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorFrank Lloyd Wright designed exactly one planetarium, in Florida, and it has just been restored, Smithsonian Magazine reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorOne planetarium. Out of a whole career. Is that a good hit rate or a bad one?

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was finished in nineteen fifty-eight on the Florida Southern College campus, which has thirteen Wright buildings, the largest single-site collection of his work.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorSeventy-five seats. So the cosmos is fully booked by a coach party from Lakeland.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe original projection system stopped working in two thousand four, and the building was largely closed until the reopening, Dezeen says.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty-odd years. The early shows ran on eight-track, so frankly the projector dying was the building's best career move.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe restoration replaced more than two hundred eighty hand-cast textile tiles around the building.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorTickets are twenty dollars, or fifteen for families of four or more.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwo hundred eighty tiles, all by hand. Never mind the stars. Who's dusting the tiles?

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe college president says people will now ask, have you seen the planetarium, instead of, have you seen a show in IMAX.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorTwenty-two years without a working projector, and the stars were still the most reliable thing in the building.