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Explore Maze-Like Passageways Exploding with Elaborate Mosaics at Philadelphia’s Magic Gardens

Colossal

But in 2004, the landowner decided to sell the property and called for the artwork to be dismantled. Open to the public, the Magic Gardens hosts regular tours, workshops, performances, and temporary exhibitions. The local community hastened to Zagar’s aid, helping to purchase the land.

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The best art books to enjoy in the summer of 2022

Creative Boom

Others were not, so on occasion, they came together and made their own exhibitions or created their own gallery spaces. This publication traces a selection of 100 surfers from the series, from smaller monochromatic works on paper to colourful large-scale paintings. This series is about more than a particular sport, though.

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10 Landmark Projects Shaping Architecture in 2024

Azure Magazine

Here at Azure, the annual tradition entails taking stock of the last 12 months of design, including public spaces , interiors , products , as well as residential and commercial architecture. In 2014, photographer Milos Bicanski revisited a series of venues constructed for the 2004 edition of the Olympics in Athens, Greece.

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5 Indigenous Designers Breaking New Ground

Azure Magazine

Only blocks from where those TRC calls were published, for instance, the Winnipeg Art Gallery recently inaugurated a new addition, Qaumajuq, dedicated solely to the work of Inuit artists. COURTESY: Winnipeg Art Gallery. PHOTO: Astrid Fadnes. But I’m very interested in creating some sort of social gathering space around these books.”

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Playing War Games on American Soil, in Photos

Feature Shoot

. “We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality,” Karl Rove told the New York Times Magazine in 2004, under the guise of anonymity as a “senior advisor” inside the Bush II White House. Fine-tuning each print for publication was its own incredibly valuable education in looking and seeing.

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Stelco Tower: An Architectural Love Story

Azure Magazine

Though in its early years, the Jackson Square podium was active with programmed events like concerts — legendary local punk band Teenage Head played there — it ultimately failed as a public space, as did countless similar ones of that era, because it is physically and visually separated from the street, where civic life thrives.

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Interior inspiration: Design Week’s picks

Design Week

It’s an extensive project, and includes the interior design of offices, a gym, a gallery and lobby. When the hotel was restored in 2004, it was during a time when “public spaces in hotels aspired to be more reverential than multi-functional”, the studio says.