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22 hours ago
Arts

Marc Fornes' New Sculptural Pavilion Reimagines the Architectural Folly

Marc Fornes creates a contemporary sculptural pavilion in Cary Park that reimagines the 18th-century architectural folly tradition through high-tech digital fabrication and innovative design.
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1 week ago
Renovation

L'Ile Folie / MARC FORNES + THEVERYMANY

Marc Fornes' L'île Folie reimagines the architectural folly as a pavilion-sculpture hybrid rising from water in Downtown Cary Park, blending playful design with functional architecture.
fromColossal
5 months ago

Sinister Skies Set the Scene for Derelict Buildings in Lee Madgwick's Surreal Paintings

Beneath ominous skies and set within flat, green parkland, Lee Madgwick's folly-like buildings strike an unsettling note. His surreal paintings feature dilapidated facades and uncanny shrubbery against cloudy, deep gray skies-usually with something just a little strange going on. In "Drift," for example, bricks dislodge from the top of a boxy structure and float into the sky one by one, and "Fracture" defies gravity altogether with a hovering apartment tower that crumbles from below.
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