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I highly recommend this special experience to everyone. If you would like to add a sculpture park click here. - Windsor Sculpture Garden - Winding along the waterfront parkland of Canada's southernmost urban centre. Modern sculpture on the border - A meeting place for expression. The collection purposely does not conform to any one artistic vision.

Siah Armajani Siah Armajani One of Siah Armajani's abiding artistic concerns has been the creation of a truly public art that unites structure with site and use. His designs for bridges, reading rooms, houses, and gazebos encourage both contemplation and communal activity. One of this best-known local works, the elegant Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (1988), links the Garden with Loring Park. This 375-foot-long span incorporates the three fundamental approaches to bridge building-beam, arch, and suspension. In other works, many of them smaller-scale, indoor pieces, Armajani explores architectural elements and construction techniques while divorcing them from their original functions.

Siah Armajani Siah Armajani One of Siah Armajani's abiding artistic concerns has been the creation of a truly public art that unites structure with site and use. His designs for bridges, reading rooms, houses, and gazebos encourage both contemplation and communal activity. One of this best-known local works, the elegant Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge (1988), links the Garden with Loring Park. This 375-foot-long span incorporates the three fundamental approaches to bridge building-beam, arch, and suspension. In other works, many of them smaller-scale, indoor pieces, Armajani explores architectural elements and construction techniques while divorcing them from their original functions.

Text by The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. . Smithsonian Institution -- Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Independence Ave. Funds for a building to house the collection were appropriated by Congress in 1969 (Mr. While the nucleus of the collection remains Joseph Hirshhorns original gift, it has been greatly enriched by Mr.
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