Philip Johnson, who designed the pavilion for the 1964-65 World's Fair, supports the idea, but some officials in the city, which owns the property, dismiss it.

The team, which won the Government's competition last year to design the pavilion, proposed a 50,000-square-foot structure of steel and concrete with the theme "Rediscover America."

The group had already chosen Bud Hollomon, a Jackson, Miss., architect, to design the pavilion.

In 1925 he designed the pavilion at the City of London School's new athletics grounds in Grove Park.

The Philips corporation commissioned Le Corbusier to design the pavilion, which was intended as a showcase of their engineering progress.

North of the city, on the shore of Lake Bagsværd, he designed the Frederiksdal pavilion.

Mary-Jean Eastman, the Manhattan architect who designed the pavilion, said, "It's about hospitality."

He asked Konstantin Korovin, one of the most notable Russian artists at the time, to design the pavilion.

He designed the British pavilion at the Paris Exposition of 1937.

In 1970 he designed the Dutch pavilion for Expo '70 (Osaka, Japan).