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Parc de la Villette is the "largest deconstructed building in the world"

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French-Swiss architect Tschumi designed the park as a deconstructed building. "It I call it the largest deconstructed building in the world as it's one building, but broken down in many fragments.". An elevated walkway follows the Canal de l'Ourcq, which crosses the site from east to west. A raised walkway runs through the park.

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Wexner Center for the Arts is "a building that is waiting to be a building"

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As we continue our deconstructivist series , we look at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Ohio by architect and theorist Peter Eisenman , which he claims "has nothing to do with deconstruction or deconstructivism.". The Wexner Center for the Arts was designed by Peter Eisenman. "I I had never read Derrida any of that stuff.

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Jianli Art Center by GOA

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GOA undertook the masterplan and design of the whole project, where Jianli Art Center acts as the gateway of the old main street, the core of the whole project. Paved with grey stone slabs, it extends more than 300 meters from east to west, and the art center sits at the east end. The art center features an steel structure system.

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California College of the Arts presents 10 architecture student projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a tech recycling centre built on the site of an Apple store in downtown San Francisco is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at California College of the Arts. Instead it is loose, freeform and curvilinear, using curtains as space dividers."

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Deconstructivist architecture "challenges the very values of harmony, unity and stability"

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But the emergence of deconstructivism – an ungainly portmanteau of the mid-to-late twentieth-century philosophical movement, deconstruction, and 1920s Russian constructivism – suggested that the avant-garde's demise may have been exaggerated. The seminal Deconstructivist Architecture exhibition was held at the MoMA.

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Kingston School of Art highlights 10 student design projects

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Dezeen School Shows: a fashion collection that celebrates the designer's Ukrainian roots and an allotment scheme at London's Docklands are included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Kingston School of Art. Kingston School of Art. The deconstruction of waste in the reconstruction of community.". Student: Amy Brown.

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Ten architecture projects by students at Manchester School of Art

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Dezeen School Shows: a centre that explores the impact of mining is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at Manchester School of Art. A path of cinematic experiences will carry the user from Mayfield Park to the chosen site. The project subjects are vast in their range and inspire the teaching team year in and year out.