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Spektrum Immersive Arts and Tourism Center / 2001 TBSI

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© Simone Bossi architects: 2001 TBSI Location: Rumelange, Luxembourg Project Year: 2024 Photographs: Simone Bossi Photographs: Ludmilla Cerveny Photographs: Courtesy of 2001 TBSI Area: 660.0 m2 Read more »

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Finally complete, the Watt Towers’ restoration is a turning point for public art in Los Angeles

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The complex had been standing largely unaltered since a previous late-90s restoration aimed at seismic upgrades was completed in 2001. Image via Covizzi's Instagram ©master_conservation. A decade later, LACMA began organizing a City Hall-backed effort that identified critical areas of need with help from t.

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Finally complete, the Watts Towers’ restoration is a turning point for public art in Los Angeles

Archinect

The complex had been standing largely unaltered since a previous late-90s restoration aimed at seismic upgrades was completed in 2001. Image via Covizzi's Instagram ©master_conservation. A decade later, LACMA began organizing a City Hall-backed effort that identified critical areas of need with help from t.

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The 18th Instanbul Biennial Appoints Iwona Blazwick as Curator for the 2024 Edition

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Image Courtesy of iKSV Iwona Blazwick has been appointed as the Curator of the 18th Istanbul Biennial, organized by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Art (iKSV). Iwona Blazwich OBE is a curator, writer, and art historian. Currently, she is the curator for the Royal Commission’s Arts AlUla initiative in Saudi Arabia.

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American Folk Art Museum, opened in 2001, to be demolished

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The American Folk Art Museum by architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien opened in 2001 to wide acclaim, thanks, in part, to its distinctive faceted, bronze façade. read more.

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Recalling Philippe Petit’s World Trade Center high-wire act after 50 years

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In hindsight, the so-called art crime of the century has become a tribute to the lives of the 2,753 who were killed in New York on Sept. 11, 2001, and whose stories, too, will always live on. Fans have said this notion also courses through Petit’s life and art in the most serene and apparent, life-affirming ways.

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Architecture critic Mark Lamster on the inaccessible trope 'plaguing new buildings'

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He later mentions SOM ’s new Schwarzman College of Computing for MIT as a positive adaptation of the trend.)

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