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In Times Square, art and architecture converge during the last week of Collective–LOK's Heart of Hearts installation

In Times Square, art and architecture converge during the last week of Collective–LOK’s Heart of Hearts installation

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Every winter, the Times Square Alliance and the Center for Architecture choose a team of architects to design an installation f0r Times Square that a) has to both dialogue and compete with the pageantry of Times Square and b) is heart-themed for Valentine’s Day. AN visited this year’s Times Square Valentine Heart Design competition winner, Collective-LOK‘s Heart of Hearts, dur…

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Observation About The Desert by Michael Kubo in Desert America: Territory of Paradox

"In contemporary culture, the American desert stands as a monumental symbol of emptiness, a vast, seemingly infinite landscape that has traditionally served as a powerful embodiment of the 'natural,' the untouched and the sublime. But a journey through the space of the desert reveals that the experience of its immensity and silence is just a mirage. Just beneath the muteness of its outward appearance, the sounds and traces of all kinds of activities, experiments, mysteries, fictions and utopias can be heard... If we want to know the future of America and its current excesses, a starting point might be to look here, in its 'empty' landscape: not as our predecessors did, as a vast expanse to be filled with the products of an expanding empire, but as a territory that is already incredibly, fascinatingly full."