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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, arguably already has one of the best museum buildings in the world. The Louis Kahn-designed structure, with its rows of vaulted ceilings in concrete and celebrated "silvery" light gives the displayed art a unique monumentality, whether
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FORT WORTH, Texas —Some Modernist landscapes are so futuristic, so weirdly alien in their urban surroundings, they look like sets for a sci-fi movie. In the case of the "Fort Worth Water Gardens" designed by Philip Johnson with partner John Burgee, the immense shapes of concrete that rise up topogra
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This month, multidisciplinary nonprofit BRIC opened their 40,000-square-foot space in downtown Brooklyn that unites their programs in visual art, performance, and media under one roof.
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What happens when you die? Well, in a literal way, what happens to everyone else. You're likely to have a traditional, costly, funeral, and then a small slot of land in a quiet sprawl of cemetery will be yours.
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While even the most coldly Brutalist buildings have found their proponents, the modernist landscapes that were built in plazas and public space in the mid-century have been slower to be embraced for preservation. Yet there’s an increasing dialogue of how, and why, modernist landscape architecture should be preserved. In
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Want to get to know New York City architecture better, from its 18th century past to modular present? Each day of October a city building is being featured, with a tour to take you into its design and history.
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This Saturday, the US chapter of Docomomo, a nonprofit dedicated to "documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement" is hosting Tour Day 2013 across the country.
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The futures that are built through architecture and the futures that are constructed through science fiction aren't always galaxies apart.
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Starting tomorrow, the public is being invited into some of the most intriguing modernist private residences in New York City.
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As anyone who spends a few months watching a New York neighborhood knows, things change. Buildings disappear or suddenly spring up with glass and steel towers. This fall, a few of the city's more interesting places are in danger of disappearing completely, including a mid-century futurist airline te
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After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for demolition. While the debate between the protection of Brutalist architecture and those who see its heavy concrete designs as ugly and bleak is not infrequent in preservation, these buildings include five murals by
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While his toxic, formaldehyde-based work may not be the most environmentally friendly art production in the world, Damien Hirst's new personal studio and gallery in Stroud, England — where his team will be plunging ever more creatures into preservatives — is being designed by a small, eco–conscious