The Ford Building, a Streamline Moderne structure in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, serves as the home of the San Diego Air & Space Museum. Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone was a late branch of the Art Deco design style Balboa Park is a 1200 acre (49 km² urban cultural park in San Diego California, United States named after the Spanish explorer Vasco San Diego Air & Space Museum (SDAM formerly the San Diego Aerospace Museum is an Aviation and Space exploration museum in San Diego California, The Ford Motor Company sponsored the building for the California Pacific International Exposition, which was held in 1935 and 1936. Ford Motor Company is an American Multinational corporation and the world's fourth largest automaker based on Worldwide vehicle sales, following The California Pacific International Exposition was an exposition held in San Diego California during May 29, 1935 &ndash November Ford was the exposition's principal exhibitor and invested $2. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been 8 million in the 45,000-square-foot (4,200 m²) building to showcase its vehicles and other forms of transportation. The square foot is an Imperial unit / US customary unit (non- SI non- metric) of Area, used mainly in the United States M^2 redirects here For other uses see M². CM2 redirects here
The museum opened in the building on June 28, 1980. Events 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul. Year 1980 ( MCMLXXX) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar)
The building was stylized after 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 there is a large fountain shaped like the Ford V8 logo. A V8 engine is a V engine with eight cylinders mounted on the Crankcase in two banks of four cylinders in most cases set at a right angle to each other