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Japanese Metabolism Preservation
Nakagin Capsule Tower (New York Times) How old does a building have to be before we appreciate its value? And when does its cultural importance trump practical considerations? Those are the questions...
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Architectural Heritage at Risk in Moscow
Gagarin’s portrait is covered so that he won’t have to look at the decrepitude of the 1966 Space Pavilion. Photograph: Justin McGuirk From the pedestrian bridge that crosses the Moskva river towards...
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Endangered World Heritage Sites
Sambor Preh Kok, in Cambodia: a Khmer masterpiece of fired-brick architecture Here’s another list of important cultural heritage sites to worry about: 20 “on the verge” of experiencing irreversible,...
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Spiral Jetty: Update
The Dia Art Foundation is positioned to re-claim the lease for the 10 acres of state land on which Robert Smithson’s masterwork Spiral Jetty sits as early as this week, MAN has learned. Dia will meet...
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Haring in Australia
Haring painting the mural at Collingwood Technical College in 1984, and right, the work in 2010 Arts Victoria is expected to lodge a permit application with Heritage Victoria shortly so that it can...
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Modernism at Middle Age
The Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y., has been closed since it was damaged by storms in September. (Photo: Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times) As Modernist buildings reach middle age,...
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Preserving Mural Art
Detail of Meg Saligman’s “Common Threads” (1997; restored 2011). (Photo: Steve Weinik/City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program) Art preservation is tricky even under ideal circumstances, which...
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Folk Art Museum Reconsidered
The American Folk Art Museum (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times) After impassioned protests from prominent architects, preservationists and design critics, the Museum of Modern Art said on Thursday...
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Penn Station in Transition
Tracks run under the James A. Farley Post Office, which is across Eighth Avenue from Penn Station and the Garden (Photo: Mary Altaffer/Associated Press) The New York City Planning Commission last week...
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Grand Army Plaza, Manhattan
Grand Army Plaza, at the corner of 58th Street and Fifth Avenue in 1927, with the Sherry-Netherland and Savoy-Plaza Hotels. (Photo: Museum of the City of New York/Corbis) In 1916 Grand Army Plaza...
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