NASA: Vehicle Assembly Building Kennedy Space Centre

Architects Remember the Building that Helped Put a Man on the Moon
Forty years later, Max Urbahn’s contribution to the space race stands tall

Summary: As tall as a 52-story building and as wide as a city block, the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island in Florida cuts a stark and lonely profile along the Atlantic Ocean coastline. A brick-like rectilinear mass that’s almost totally devoid of human-scaled features, it’s a hyperbole--a simple, exaggerated sketch of a building.