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- In mid-December, the third Day for Night festival took place at PostHTX, the former Barbara Jordan Post Office downtown. The three-day event showcased experiential art alongside a well-curated musical line-up that leaned electronic. At Day for Night, sensations of sound and light were blended to create an immersive, exploratory world. When considered with an architectural gaze, the festival offered lessons for how to repurpose the building complex, as it was sold in 2015 and is slated for redevelopment. The festival was a master class in engagement through attitude. The pop-up event made no attempt to "blend in" with its environment—instead it was a spatial operation that radically re-made its surroundings. But it did so within a mode that complemented the existing structure, thereby making it more unique and more enigmatic. In its sensorial renovation, the architecture was fully altered, but made better as a result. The Post Office was totally changed, but through this ...
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