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Aerial View, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

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Ever walked through the innards of an alien? You can at the Kunsthaus. Like the Murinsel, the Kunsthaus (“Art Museum”) was created for European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003. The architects, Peter Cook and Colin Fournier, took a mass of iridescent acrylic panels and wove them into an amorphous

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Cigarette Break, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

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Thanks to the presence of the university, Graz is a student town.

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Skin, Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

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The blue acrylic “skin” of the Kunsthaus is designed to act as a giant exhibition screen. Embedded within the walls are 930 40W fluorescent rings – or pixels – that can be set at a variety of illumination levels. Check it out at night.