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To: Ilaine who wrote (160424)3/11/2006 2:16:45 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 793880
 
Alaska had a rule by which all public buildings were required to have a percentage of the total budget devoted to art embellishments. Some of the results were very worthwhile. Kmart had two totems. A middle school had brass art medallions depicting native symbols. The courthouse had a life size grizzly bear bronze. The bear replaced Nimbus, after a terrible controversy of the you either "love it or hate it" variety.

You can probably see why if you look about halfway down in this pdf document. The sculpture reminds me of the aftermath of a trainwreck. heritagepreservation.org!UpFall02.pdf

I thought some of the examples in your links were pretty interesting. A couple looked like they were imitating Afghan adobe architecture.
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