Cone of discovery

The same Allies and Morrison team that was rushing to complete the Royal Festival Hall on London’s South Bank had a slightly earlier deadline to meet downriver in Greenwich: a 120-seat planetarium at the Royal Observatory, part of the National Maritime Museum complex.

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