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Skylon (Festival of Britain)
Former public artwork in London / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Skylon was a futuristic-looking, slender, vertical, cigar-shaped steel tensegrity structure located by the Thames in London, that gave the illusion of floating above the ground, built in 1951 for the Festival of Britain.
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A popular joke of the period was that, like the British economy of 1951, "It had no visible means of support".[1]