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The CBC has an article about the surviving works of art and architecture from Expo 67, which opened 27 April 1967.
Expo 67 may have opened a half century ago today, but it's 2017 that seems kind of old by comparison.
The art and architectural legacy of Montreal's 1967 International and Universal Exhibition — few, but impressive — litter Canada's landscape like the ruins of a fantastical future to which we somehow, somewhere lost the thread.
Found as far away as Newfoundland, Expo 67's remnants continue to exude some of the weird, wondrous magic of that Summer of Love in Montreal, when anything and everything seemed possible
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Remnants of Expo 67, 50 Years Later
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(Score: 3, Informative) by theluggage on Wednesday May 03 2017, @12:04PM (1 child)
like the ruins of a fantastical future to which we somehow, somewhere lost the thread.
Really? I don't see anything there that you wouldn't see in any high-profile commercial/public building project or public artwork of the last 25 years or so.
Or in some 1960s high-rise concrete social housing project, once celebrated by architects as a dynamic neo-brutalist deconstruction of space and light, now glimpsed over the shoulders of cheering former residents as it is finally blown up. Or, for that matter, on the shortlist for the annual Carbuncle Cup [bdonline.co.uk] award.
I assume that, inside, they all feature the same dynamic, exciting buckets catching the bold, challenging drips from the visionary, dramatic... but, above all, leaky roof. (Actually, in the award* winning building where I work we have big sponges instead of buckets)
* No, an actual award, not the Carbuncle Cup, although I would be able to see a former Carbuncle finalist from the window... if I had an outdoors-facing window.
(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday May 03 2017, @05:29PM
I was thinking something similar. Not that the fantastic future didn't happen as it should have. But that the fantastic future was realized to be just fantasy.
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