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One of four structures from Olafur Eliasson's "New York City Waterfalls" (2008)

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The Public Art Fund, the nonprofit that organized the massive installation, has donated the 40 fixtures to the Atlanta Ballet, which will use them in its new headquarters in a renovated warehouse, scheduled to open in 2010. The lights will illuminate translucent panels lining the dance studios, making them glow.

The lights have been in storage since the waterfalls came down in October, but most of the rest of the project's materials have already been recycled or reused. “It was always our goal to recycle as much as we could,” said Susan K. Freedman, president of the fund. The scaffolding used in Eliasson's four towering structures, for example, has gone to several different building sites. “We’re probably looking at them in the cityscape,” she said.