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Sidney Nolan, 'Ned Kelly' (detail), 1946. Enamel paint on composition board. 90.8 x 121.5 cm. National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Gift of Sunday Reed, 1977.
© TRACEY EMIN. All rights reserved, DACS 2013. Photo: KERRY RYAN.
Richard Rogers Partnership, Lloyd’s of London, 1978-86. © Richard Bryant / arcaidimages.com & Piano + Rogers, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 1971-77. © Francois Le Diascorn / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images
José Chávez Morado, 'Carnaval en Huejotzingo (Carnival in Huejotzingo)' (detail), 1939. Oil on canvas, 71.1 x 96.5 cm. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Loyal Davis © DACS 2013.
21 November 2011
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Permanent and temporary architecture can act as a trigger for memory, opening up new interpretations of context, place and the past as well as pointing towards the future. In partnership with the British Council, the Royal Academy is commissioning UK designers, Asif Khan and Pernilla Ohrstedt to create a pavilion for Singapore’s architecture festival in October 2011. Made of ice and sand, the pavilion will provoke discussion and awareness of issues of land and climate which are intrinsically linked to Singapore’s heritage.
A panel of respondents including Kelvin Ang, conservation architect and former Head of Heritage Studies, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore, and Christopher Woodward, director of the Garden Museum, discussed the pavilion.
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