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PLACES + SPACES: People of Affluence and Influence

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Spacing contributor Laura Boudreau is blogging the Creative Places + Spaces Regional Forum at the Artscape Wychwood Barns. Follow her posts on Tuesday and Wednesday to learn more about innovative city-building at the Barns and beyond.  

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Maryann Kerr, Executive Director, Artscape Foundation, on the up close and personal fundraising ask: “You can’t milk a cow by mail.”

It took $21.2 million to build the Artscape Wychwood Barns, and to give you an idea of what that financial commitment looked like at “dirt level,” check out the conceptual views of the four Barns and then compare them (by clicking on the links below each picture) to Edward Burtynsky‘s 360-degree images of the Barns as they were in 2006.


The Studio Barn


The Covered Street Barn


The Community Barn


The Green Barn

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