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Needle Tower is a 1968 sculpture by Kenneth Snelson composed of aluminum tubes held in position by a network of stainless-steel cables. Rather than touching one another directly, the rigid elements are stabilized through continuous tension, an approach commonly described as tensegrity. The tall, ope...
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Important tensegrity sculpture, admired for engineering elegance and modern structural invention, with specialist rather than mass fame.
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Needle Tower II is a large-scale outdoor sculpture created by American artist Kenneth Snelson. Completed in the late 1960s or early 1970s, the piece is a prominent example of tensegrity, a structural principle where solid metal tubes are held together and suspended in space entirely by the tension o...
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Strong Snelson tensegrity tower, respected in sculpture and engineering circles, but secondary to Needle Tower.
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