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Artist Mary Miss files suit to stop demolition of outdoor installation at Des Moines Art Center

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Artist Mary Miss has filed a lawsuit in an ongoing dispute over the planned demolition of her outdoor installation Greenwood Pond: Double Site (1996) at the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa. Greenwood Pond-Double Site, Des Moines, IA, 1996. Greenwood Pond-Double Site, Des Moines, IA, Dec. Greenwood Pond-Double Site, Des Moines, IA, Dec.

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joana vasconcelos deconstructs electricity heritage in plug-in show at MAAT lisbon

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This latest showcase brings together Vasconcelos’ new works, some of her iconic pieces produced since 2000, and projects from the EDP Foundation Art Collection.

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Piovenefabi creates repurposed-steel-beam stage at Horst Arts and Music festival

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Architecture studio Piovenefabi has created The Ring stage using repurposed steel beams for the 10th edition of Horst Arts and Music festival in Brussels. The steel beams taken were the only material used for the construction of the pavilion, except the yellow paint and some concrete foundations," she continued.

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Flowing vaulted roofs top Tarang arts space by The Grid Architects

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Undulating vaults shelter this multipurpose arts space in Ahmedabad , India, which local studio The Grid Architects designed to defy "conventional architectural norms". It is made from tiles without supporting beams The tiles are designed so that if Tarang's arches are ever deconstructed they can be repurposed.

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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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Albert Frey's all-metal 1930s Aluminaire House reassembled in Palm Springs

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The Palm Springs Art Museum has unveiled the reconstructed Aluminaire House in California, a modernist house originally designed in the 1930s by architect Albert Frey and editor A Lawrence Kocher. The photography is by Guillaume Goureau, courtesy of Palm Springs Art Museum.

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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.