The Planetarium was designed by Gyo Obata of Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum with a unique shape (Obata was later tasked in the 1970s with designing the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.).
Designed by Gyo Obata, Malpass Library stands at six levels high and 222,000 square feet.
Takeshi Obata | Gyo Obata | Toshishiro Obata | Kim Gyo-gak | Hellmuth Obata + Kassabaum (HOK) |
Then into the 1940s and 1950s a certain sub-genre of St. Louis modernism emerged, with the locally important Harris Armstrong, and a series of daring modern civic landmarks like Gyo Obata's Planetarium, the geodesic-dome Climatron, and the main terminal building at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport.