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"Land Ports of Entry" by Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects and artist Alan Michelson highlights the architecture of surveillance and openness in two border stations with the aim of facilitating the inspection and passenger control and vehicles crossing the bother between Unites States and Canada. The complexity of the project is to convey a sense of openness as well as security in a place that represents both a main ceremonial gateway and a site of surveillance and regulation. Aesthetics are presented through the use of material effects of transparency, translucency and opacity to help negotiate the contradictions of the program and to gesture towards the buildings’ equivocal, post-9/11 geopolitical landscape.
Together with "Land Port of Entry", the artists Kadambari Baxi and Irene Cheng present "Citizenship by Design", public art project that raises questions about citizenship in a globalized age through the study of artefacts such as passports, identification technologies and regulations regarding naturalization and travel. The project aims to call attention to the ways that citizenship is designed and how it might be re-imagined by highlighting the aesthetics of these objects and rules and remixing their graphic elements into multinational hybrids.
Both projects provoke viewers to reconsider the aesthetic dimensions of how nation-states regulate individuals’ movements and identities.
Images:
"Land Port of Entry at Massena: Detail view of North Façade of Main Building", Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP. Photo © Michael Moran; "Land Port of Entry at Massena: Detail view of Main Building and Primary Inspection Canopy", Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP. Photo © Michael Moran; "Land Port of Entry at Champlain: Primary Inspection Plaza", Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP. Photo © Michael Moran;
"Citizenship by Design: International passports, organized by color, and reimagined hybrid passports", Kadambari Baxi and Irene Cheng;
"Land Port of Entry at Champlain: View looking South from Main Entrance", Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP. Photo © Michael Moran; "Land Port of Entry at Champlain: Inspection Lane Detail", Smith-Miller + Hawkinson Architects LLP. Photo © Michael Moran.
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