Pigeon Towers and Donkey Paths [electronic resource].

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Pigeon Towers and Donkey Paths [electronic resource].

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KW Institute for Contemporary Art Sommerakademie Paul Klee 2019

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A brand-new pigeon tower stands by the river Thames; the New Tate Modern in London. A brick building with small recesses and niches, and masonry reminiscent of brick expressionism; both a modern industrial building and a medieval pigeon tower. The building was designed by Basel-based architects Herzog & de Meuron in 2007, and was planned to feature a glass façade, which one year later was converted into a perforated brick façade enclosing an ornamental glass body within. From the outside, the building looks like the ideal nesting and breeding site for city pigeons: once at home in rock faces, in latter-day city settings they need cornices and niches to survive…
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Architectural criticism
Capital movements
Twenty-first century in art
Housing

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Marion von Osten
Tirdad Zolghadr

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