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The New York Times | Jueves, 01 de Enero de 1970, 00:00:00

To the Editor: The Japanese pavilion at Expo '92 is being promoted as the world's largest wooden building. ("Impressions of Expo '92," May 3, and "Seville's Extravaganza, Feb. 23).

Expo's press offices told me that the Japanese pavilion has a surface area of 5,660 square meters. The Seville office also said that the building was 60 meters high and 40 meters wide.

An engineering report on nine surviving identical wooden blimp hangars built for the Navy in the United States in 1942-43 shows that they measure 296 feet 6 inches wide, or 90.37 meters, 170 feet 4 inches high, or 51.91 meters, and 1,040 feet long, or 317 meters. The clear span area inside each hangar is 5.6 acres and the roof area is over 11 acres. Since one acre is 4,047 square meters, it is clear that these hangars are much larger than the Japanese pavilion. A letter from the Guinness Book of Records acknowledges these structures as the world's largest wooden buildings

LINDA S. ETHERIDGE High Point, N.C.