| Argentine conceptual artist Marta Minujin creates a Greek-inspired temple in downtown Buenos Aires from thousands of books. The artwork commemorates 30 years since the end of the country's military dictatorship. Full story: A temple made of thousands of books was erected by artist Marta Minujin in Buenos Aires as Argentina commemorates 30 years of democracy. Called "Agora de la Paz", the 42-foot-high installation is made from 25-thousand books and is inspired by the Greek Temple of Hephaestus. Minujin, who worked with American artist Andy Warhol, built a full-scale model of the Parthenon in Buenos Aires in 1983 using books banned by the military dictatorship that ended that year. Thirty years on, Minujin says the aim of her latest work is to help end fighting in the world. [Marta Minujin, Artist]: "This building that classical Greeks had imagined perpendicular, I twisted. The columns are rundown because the world is rundown. It is covered with 25-thousand books with quotes of ... | 
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