Daily digest: Inaugural Design Miami/Paris fair nixed and more
Design Miami cancels its upcoming Paris fair due to security concerns, a sculpture outside the Thompson Center gets the boot, and more.
Source: archpaper.com
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Art Industry News: A Long-Lost Trove of Elvis's Jewelry, Guitars, and Guns Is Heading to Auction + Other Stories
Plus, the U.K.'s largest ever repatriation of colonial artifacts, and the rise of Singapore as an art hub.
Source: artnet.com
Thompson Center sculpture heading to new home
With the state selling the building where it has stood for nearly four decades, “Monument with Standing Beast” will have to move to a new location.
Source: suntimes.com
The Thompson Center: A Building Facing Demolition Threat in Chicago
Copy Every city has its odd building. Paris has Centre Pompidou. London –Lloyd’s of London. New York –the Guggenheim. Naturally, Chicago, the architectural capital of the world, has one too. Here it is –James R. Thompson Center, named so in honor of four-term Illinois Republican Governor (1977-91) who was brave enough to get it built in 1985. Home to offices of the Illinois state government the building is unlike anything you have ever seen before. Unusually shaped and brightly clad in multi-colored glass panels this structure occupies the entire city block and sits tightly across the...
Source: archdaily.com