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U9591
01.01.1987
The World Record - General Idea
Unbuilt Roads
  • A commission for the SkyDome sports stadium in Toronto, Canada. "General Idea's World Record takes the form of an Illuminated sign suspended overhead and running for the complete circumference of the SkyDome's circular interior street. It will display ...

    A commission for the SkyDome sports stadium in Toronto, Canada.

    "General Idea's World Record takes the form of an Illuminated sign suspended overhead and running for the complete circumference of the SkyDome's circular interior street. It will display a continuous sequence of satellite images following on a degree of latitude as it circles the earth. The 360 light boxes (each 180 x 180 cm) are mounted in a continuous ring, each facet representing one degree of longitude.

    The result wil be a continuous bird's eye view of the world at a scale so large that the stadium itself would appear as a circle about 2cm across.

    The spectator could literally walk around the world, past the Cavas of Altimira, Biarritz, Nice, Florence, Sarajevo, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Great Wall of China, VladlvostocK, Sapporo, across the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, past Mount Rushmore, and back to Toronto."

    The project was not realized as the stadium claimed it was too expensive. But soon after they used General Idea's Idea and design notes and built all 360 light boxes but used them instead as advertising space.

    Existing Documentation (photos, drawings, models): Detailed drawings exist along with related descriptions.

    The project could be executed for any one degree of latitude of the globe but the site should be somewhere on that latitude.

    A commission for the SkyDome sports stadium in Toronto, Canada. "General Idea's World Record takes the form of an Illuminated sign suspended overhead and running for the complete circumference of the SkyDome's circular interior street. It will display ...

    A commission for the SkyDome sports stadium in Toronto, Canada.

    "General Idea's World Record takes the form of an Illuminated sign suspended overhead and running for the complete circumference of the SkyDome's circular interior street. It will display a continuous sequence of satellite images following on a degree of latitude as it circles the earth. The 360 light boxes (each 180 x 180 cm) are mounted in a continuous ring, each facet representing one degree of longitude.

    The result wil be a continuous bird's eye view of the world at a scale so large that the stadium itself would appear as a circle about 2cm across.

    The spectator could literally walk around the world, past the Cavas of Altimira, Biarritz, Nice, Florence, Sarajevo, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Great Wall of China, VladlvostocK, Sapporo, across the expanse of the Pacific Ocean, past Mount Rushmore, and back to Toronto."

    The project was not realized as the stadium claimed it was too expensive. But soon after they used General Idea's Idea and design notes and built all 360 light boxes but used them instead as advertising space.

    Existing Documentation (photos, drawings, models): Detailed drawings exist along with related descriptions.

    The project could be executed for any one degree of latitude of the globe but the site should be somewhere on that latitude.