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It was designed by a number of talented architects, engineers and artists, including architect George W. Kelham and artist Jules Guerin who was the fair’s Director of Color. The plan of the site consisted of three main courts: the Court of the Universe, the Court of Ages (later called the Court of Abundance) and the Court of the Four Seasons, with each court being formed by pavilions. With an abundance of domes adorning its buildings, the fair site became known as the “City of Domes”, the most impressive of which was a vast glass dome atop the Palace of Horticulture. The fair site’s classical architecture is best represented in its only remaining building, Bernard Maybeck’s beautiful Palace of Fine Arts, but the centrepiece of the fair was the 432-foot high Tower of Jewels, covered in murals, statues and over 100,000 mirror-backed glass jewels. 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