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Buildings of Disaster: What a collection of disaster-themed souvenirs says about design, commerce and taste.

Not long after Hurricane Katrina, Constantin Boym was reading a news article that referred to the New Orleans Superdome as “a symbol of all that went wrong” on the Gulf Coast before, during and after the storm. When he read that, he says, he realized that the sports stadium now stood for something quite different from — and much larger than — its intended function. “It stood for that terrible event, that historical event,” he says. And that made it an appropriate addition to “Buildings of Disaster,” a series of “souvenirs” produced and distributed by his design studio, Boym Partners. …
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