Ford Building, San Diego, California

The Ford Building, a Streamline Moderne structure in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, serves as the home of the San Diego Air & Space Museum. The building was originally built by the Ford Motor Company for the California Pacific International Exposition, which was held in 1935 and 1936. Ford was the exposition's principal exhibitor and invested $2.8 million in the 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m), 296-foot (90 m) diameter building to showcase its vehicles and other forms of transportation. The architect was noted American industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague. The building was styled to resemble a V8 engine. The building overall consists of two different sized circles in the shape of an "8," and in the courtyard of the larger circle...