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The Embrace, the new memorial sculpture in Boston made in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King, was unveiled on Friday. Lane Turner/Boston Globe via Getty Images hide caption

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A view of a section of Michael Heizer's City Ben Blackwell/Triple Aught Foundation hide caption

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Immerse yourself in this colossal desert 'City' — but leave the selfie stick at home

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Steve Lacy performs at The Fillmore Silver Spring in Maryland on Oct. 15, 2022. Kyle Gustafson/The Washington Post/Getty Images hide caption

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Maya Lin, in 1988, examining inverted water table being fabricated for the Civil Rights Memorial she designed to be installed in Montgomery, Alabama. Adam Stoltman hide caption

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Maya Lin doesn't like the spotlight — but the Smithsonian is shining a light on her

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Women were an integral part of the construction effort. Among their jobs: Carrying cement for a building project in Chandigarh, India in 1956. Ernst Scheidegger for MOMA hide caption

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Diébédo Francis Kéré, this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize winner. Lars Borges/The Pritzker Architecture Prize hide caption

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For the first time in its history, architecture's top award goes to a Black architect

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Dragon blood tree at Diksam Plateau, on Yemen's Socotra Island. It's one of the sites included on the 2022 Watch from the World Monuments Fund. Chris Miller/World Monuments Fund hide caption

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Friendship Hospital in Bangladesh, winner of the 2021 RIBA International Prize. The hospital's zig-zag canal collects rainwater and aids in cooling the site. Asif Salman/URBANA hide caption

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The Villa Aurora in Rome housing the only mural by Caravaggio failed to find a bidder in an auction Tuesday. Riccardo Antimiani/ANSA/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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The pandemic was a major blow to the museum's budget. But this historic gift will allow it to expand its collection of modern and contemporary art. Spencer Platt/Getty Images hide caption

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Julie Bargmann, the 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate. Barrett Doherty/The Cultural Landscape Foundation hide caption

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She reclaims toxic waste dumps, and she just won a major landscape architecture award

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The almost 40-foot 3D-printed pedestrian bridge designed by Joris Laarman and built by Dutch robotics company MX3D has been opened in Amsterdam six years after the project was launched. The bridge, which was fabricated from stainless steel rods by six-axis robotic arms equipped with welding gear, spans the Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Ana Fernandez/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty hide caption

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Matthew Mazzotta: How Can We Redesign Overlooked Spaces To Better Serve The Public?

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Renovations to the Smithsonian Castle will be on the Fine Arts Commission's agenda. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption

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An aerial view of Washington, D.C., shows the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument as well as the U.S. Capitol. Joe Sohm/Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption

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Italian officials have announced a project to build and install a high-tech, retractable floor inside the ancient Roman Colosseum by 2023, some two centuries after archaeologists removed the arena's stage. Domenico Stinellis/AP hide caption

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The 516 Arouca, the longest pedestrian suspension bridge in the world, hangs above the Aguieiras Waterfall in the Paiva Gorge in Arouca, Portugal. It is opening to the public next week. Octavio Passos/Getty Images hide caption

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