Tuesday, September 10, 2013

A Ghost Of The Subprime Market Rises In Flint - Architizer

A temporary art installation/pavilion stands in honor of homes lost during the Great Recession in Flint, Michigan. Maybe we can get it next as part of a traveling exhibit?  Here is a bit from the article. Click title for link.
As a way of relating Flint's story to other places, the architects fitted the underside of the canopy with light boxes and filled them with photos that Kickstarter supporters sent in from all over the world. "When people go into this podium and look up, they will be able to see all these pieces of a collective memory," says Villalobos. More than 800 submissions from across Europe, Asia, and the Americas no doubt allude to other crises—Greece, Spain, Ireland?—with a healthy dose of adorable dog photos thrown in, we are sure of it.