It is to the credit of Durham County Council that it has carried out, with the help of lottery funding and Burns Associates architects, a restoration of artist and architect Victor Pasmore's Apollo Pavilion (1969) in Peterlee, which was formally re-opened on 12 July. Named after the lunar landing mission of that year, the pavilion later fell into neglect and had been threatened with demolition.rnWe are all familiar with the 'crossover' by Le Corbusier from architecture to painting, but instances of artists of stature crossing over into architecture are scarce in the past 100 years. They were mostly in the ambience of Constructivism and of de Stijl, with Vladimir Tatlin, El Lissitzky, Naum Gabo, and Theo Van Doesburg all straddling the divide.
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