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This modern architectural marvel was recreated in Bologna fifty years after it caused quite a stir in Paris.
Every time a major fair or exhibition ends, its pavilions are usually dismantled and become nostalgia, imprinted in memories and photos only. There are, however, some notable exceptions—in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Queens, New York, for example. The Eiffel Tower, built for the 1889 Universal Exhibition in Paris, should have been demolished , but instead became a symbol of the city known the world over. The 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, also in Paris, was dedicated to the rich and sophisticated Art Deco style, but famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier submitted , with fellow architect Pierre Jeanneret , a project called Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau. His rejoinder to ornate Art Deco was a white geometric box, decorated with industrial production and built-in furniture, and intersected by a courtyard tree that passed through an open hole in the attic.
