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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, Dec.

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Demolition Is Dead. The Future of Sustainable Architecture Lies in Deconstruction

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This ritual of demolition and construction, whether at the scale of an entire building or an interior renovation, perpetuates a cycle of unsustainable material renewal that heavily contributes to the built environment’s carbon emissions — up to 50% of the annual global total.

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Studio Bark designs "sculptural forest" timber installation for Leeds City Square

Deezen

Architecture practice Studio Bark has collaborated with artist Michael Pinsky to create the wooden Making A Stand installation, which aims to explore material life cycles and "stand in solidarity with climate protestors". It is set to be repurposed when the installation is deconstructed at the end of the year.

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Eleven Burning Man 2022 installations that showcase deep-desert design

Deezen

Taking place on-site for the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic , during which it occurred online, Burning Man returned this year with a diverse array of installations. In 2022, many of the installations focused on reused materials, including a luminescent sculpture made from plastic recovered from the ocean.

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MCA – Mario Cucinella Architects designs the installation “Città Miniera: Design, Dismantle, Disseminate” for Milan Design Week 2024

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The installation tackles the theme of the city of the future from a regeneration perspective in which the space, inhabited by humans, is no longer seen as something that takes away from nature but, on the contrary, draws inspiration from it and regenerates itself. Thus the installation “Città Miniera.

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PARKLIFE Spatial Installation Shanghai Downtown

e-architect

PARKLIFE Spatial Installation Shanghai Downtown, Xintiandi shopping architecture, Chinese TEAM_BLDG Photos. PARKLIFE Spatial Installation Shanghai Downtown Design. PARKLIFE | Spatial Installation In The Downtown. PARKLIFE Spatial Installation Shanghai, China. 12 Dec 2022. Design: TEAM_BLDG. Photos : Studio FF.

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New York Institute of Technology spotlights seven fabrication and robotics projects

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Also included is a project that creates 3D printed materials based on the structure of chainmail and an installation that uses folded aluminium sheets to create dramatic lighting effects. Each project's research explores three stages of design that encapsulate material research, computation design and robotics fabrication.