As commissions go, only the folly offers an architect more liberty than the pavilion. Consider a Modern jewel, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion, built to represent Germany at the 1929 World Exposition and to formally receive the king and queen of Spain — once — at its opening in May of that year. Having served its purpose, it was demolished in January 1930. (It was rebuilt in 1986.)
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