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Location: Calgary, AB, Canada

Date: first exhibited in the 1997

Architect (artist): Dennis Oppenheim

Purpose: Sculpture

Rating: (127 votes, average: 3.23 out of 5)

More info: A country church is seen balancing on it’s steeple, as if it had been lifted by a terrific force and brought to the site as a device or method of rooting out evil forces.

It was too hot for New York City; too hot for Stanford University; too hot for Vancouver. But a controversial, imposing sculpture by renowned international artist Dennis Oppenheim finally found a public home in laid-back Calgary.

(Image credits: 1: tripleman, 2: Jeffery Simpson)

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