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U9811

01.01.1960

Monument with Rust - Gustav Metzger

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three projects about which I have been thinking for some time. The first construction is to be about 18 feet high with a base about 24 ft. by 18 ft. The principle of this technique was suggested by Mr. E. LI. Evans, who worked in the corrosion of meta ...

London, Monument, Rust, Science, Steel, Unbuilt Roads

U9282

22.11.1992

Proposal for a permanent video installation for the NYC headquarters of Sony Corporation - Dara Birnbaum

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INSTALLATION DESCRIPTION: At one end of the proposed installation space (main dining area designated for Sony employees), a wall is used to support a video wall or projection screen, which displays a seam-less flow of large-scale images. These large-s ...

Documentation, History, Installation, Media, Technology, Unbuilt Roads, Video

U9712

14.11.1992

Memorial - Ilya Kabakov

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Kabakov "MEMORIAL" Short description of the project The Concept of the Project "Memorial" The Russian revolution which established the "era of Socialism" is considered to be a most important event of the twentieth century. The end of ...

Installation, Museum, Revolution, Russia, Socialism, Unbuilt Roads

U9779

01.01.1988

Relatum (Iron Plate and Stone) - Lee Ufan

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Four natural stones are evenly places around an iron plate, facing each other. As the iron plate is buried one meter below the ground, only the four stones are visible to the viewer. The absence of the iron plate is indicated by a title sign which ind ...

Iron, Metal, Olympics, Sculpture, Seoul, Stone, Unbuilt Roads

U9853

01.01.1972

Progetto per Gerry Schum - Guiseppe Penone

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Ogni anno un giro di 60" attorno ad un albero seguendo un cerchio fisso. Le riprese montate in successione anno per anno testimoniano la crescita concentrica del tronco. Progetto per Gerry Schum. Novembre 1972. Giuseppe Penone ...

Growth, Nature, Time, Trees, Unbuilt Roads

U9838

01.01.1985

Notebook Page: Home in the Form of a Banana with Garage, - Claes Oldenburg

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Pencil and watercolor on paper, 5 3/4 x 4 in. (14.6 x 10.2 cm) ...

Banana, Drawing, Fruit, Notebook, Unbuilt Roads

U9668

21.02.1997

Niemandsland - Hans Haacke

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Eine Kreisfläche von ca. 30m Durchmesser ist auf dem offenen zum Ministerium für Bildung und Wiesenschaft und dem Ministerium für Justiz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland gehörenden ebenen Gelände in Bonn-BadGodesberg zu markieren, wenn möglich auf d ...

Education, land, Landscape, Ministery, Public, Soil, Unbuilt Roads

U9641

01.01.1995

Project 1 + Project 2 - Simryn Gill

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Project 1 Title: untitled. Seeding the Indian Ocean (between Europe and S. E. Asia) with text-coconuts. Year: 1995 Description: Coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) inhabit the entire tropical belt. They were the only palms common to both the Old and t ...

Asia, Coconut, Geography, History, Indian Ocean, Text, Unbuilt Roads, Venice, World Trade

U9784

01.01.1993

Grand Concours International D'Architecture - Sol Lewitt

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TITRE DU PROJET: Grand Concours D'International D'architecture ANNEE: 1993/1994 DESCRIPTIF: Concours de plage ouvert surinvitation a des equipe D' Architectes de renomíe internationale. Objet = construire en untemps limiteé entre lama ...

Architecture, Beach, Competition, Sand, Unbuilt Roads

U9769

05.02.1997

Chen H.V.O + G.T. - Bertrand Lavier

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J'ai [illegible] de [illegible] un faux [?]drome vous l' echangeur automatic à l'etui de la ville du Hare. [Illegible] monde itait d'accord, c'ert la virou [illegible] [?]quelle cela ne it[?] pas fuit. [illegible] 5.2.97 ...

Bridge, French, Transportation, Unbuilt Roads

U9913

01.01.1974

654 THINGS from The United States - Edward Ruscha

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This was a proposal for the Defense Urban Development area in the city of Paris. The work, which takes on the appearance of a monument, would consist of stone or marble plates, bolted together to create a weather proof box-shaped container, housing shelve ...

America, Mounment, Paris, Time, Time Capsule, Unbuilt Roads

U9487

01.01.1997

Placid Earth: A Project for the Meeting of Millennia - Cai Guo Quiang

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Observed from space, the Earth at night is ablaze with lights. During the last second of this century and the first second of the next century--the two seconds when the millennia meet-all inhabitants of the Earth should turn off their lights, letting t ...

Earth, Energy, Humans, Space, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9796

28.02.1995

Broadway Musicals - Christian Marclay

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Proposal for a Times Square Business Improvement District Traffic Median Public Art Project Febuary 28th, 1995 Artist: Christian Marclay Title: Broadway Musicals Site: Traffic median between Broadway and Seventh Avenue, from 4 ...

Broadway, History, Musical, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9651

19.02.1997

Douglas Gordon - 5 year drive-by; proposal for a public artwork.

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Originally presented at the Biennale de Lyon, 1995. The work is something of a companion piece to 24 Hour Psycho but it may, appear to be a little more extreme in some ways. I want to work with John Ford's film The Searchers which is, I think, the ar ...

Film, Hollywood, Hope, John Ford, Narrative, Time, Unbuilt Roads, Westerns

U9898

01.01.1997

PROJEKT - Ulrich Rückreim

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13 Kuben Granit Rosa Porrino, jeweils horizontal und vertikal gespalten jeweils ca. 300 x 200 x 200 cm davon jeweils ca. 90 cm in die Erde eingelassen 120 Bäume jeweils in lOer Gruppen gepflanzt Gesamtareal: 100 x 100 m Dreize ...

Earth, Grids, Stone, Trees, Unbuilt Roads

U9706

01.01.1989

The insurer - Fabrice Hybert

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Monsieur l'Abbe Pierre, il y a sans doute d'autres points que je n'ai pas imagines mais une conversation permettrait sans doute d'apporter des rectifications. Je sollicite votre bienveillance et votre engagement pour pouvoir m'autoriser a vous rencontr ...

City, Fruit, Photography, Plants, Pollution, Unbuilt Roads

U9684

01.01.1992

Entwurf für einen erneuerten Malkasten 1992 - 1994 - Ulrike Holthöfer

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„Entwurf für einen erneuerten Malkasten" 1992 - 1994 Gemeinschaftsprojekt Jacobischer Garten/ Malkasten Düsseldorf: 22000 m2 großer historischer Garten und Gebäudesubstanz (Jacobihaus, Hentrichbau, Randgebäude) im Zentrum der Stadt Düsse ...

City Planning, Community, History, Paint, Society, Unbuilt Roads

U9747

01.01.1968

A House of Dust - Alison Knowles

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The House of Dust was first a computer poem using fortran language. The quatrains are all different, each line randomly connected. The form shifting categories for the house are: the material of manufature, the locations the light source and the inhabitan ...

Computer, Language, Poetry, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9578

01.01.1997

Financial Times Millennium Bridge Competition - Richard Serra and Frank Gehry

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Design Intent: The main purpose of a footbridge across the Thames should be more than to transport people most efficiently from point A to point B. We propose, instead, a bridge where sociality becomes the dominant practical purpose, a structure which ...

Bridge, London, Public space, River Thames, St.Pauls Cathedral, Tate, Unbuilt Roads

U9673

01.05.1981

WATERWORKS - Mona Hatoum

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Extracts from an unpublished interview with Michael Archer for Phaidon press: ...Around the same period I made a proposal for the New Contemporaries exhibition which was going to be held at the ICA. In those days the toilets were on either side of the ...

Body, Censorship, human, ICA, London, Public, Taboo, Unbuilt Roads, Video

U9660

01.01.1995

Double Exposure 1995-6 - Dan Graham

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This pavilion is enterable through a sliding 2-way mirror door in one side, is sited in a landscape with some trees, a large visible vista. The 4m x 4m x 4m pavilion has two 2-way mirror sides. The third side is a cibachrome transparency which shows th ...

Landscape, Mirror, Pavilion, Sunset, Time, Unbuilt Roads

U9988

01.10.1987

City Hall Tower Night Ilumination - Krysztof Wodiczko

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"In the name of "progress" our official culture is striving to force the new media to do the work of the old." -Marshall McLuhan "For the city of today does speak to us, but it is also at certain points and in certain orders remarkably silent. There a ...

City Hall, City Life, Community, History, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9510

01.01.1997

Der New-Babyloner - Constant

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Die Automation verspricht uns eine Produktion, die die Bedürfnisse aller Menschen ohne menschliche Arbeitsleistung zufriedenstellt. Die Arbeit des Menschen ist nicht länger ein unumgängliches Produktionsmittel. Der Mensch steht erste. malig vor der Tat ...

Labour, Public, Society, Space, Time, Unbuilt Roads

U9548

01.01.1997

Why New Worlds Conceived by Artists Do Not Get Built - Peter Fend

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Art, being a permutation or adaptation of that which is known, bodies forth the new. It bodies forth, at the least, mutations. These mutations, curiously, coincide with other fields of innovation, such as science and technology. And the mutations, t ...

Architecture, Invention, Mutations, Nam June Paik, Science, Society, Technology, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9285

01.01.1969

Monumento all'agricoltura 1969-70 - Alighiero Boetti

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In Turin von Alighiero Boetti für Fiat entworfenes Projekt, das im Rahmen der Landwirtschaftsausstellung 1970 in Verona prasentiert werden sollte, auf der die Firma vertreten war. Es sah eine etwa zwanzig Meter hohe Saüle vor, die die verschiedenen Schi ...

agriculture, Earth, Fiat, Landscape, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9923

01.01.1993

den anonymen Tod ausstellen - Gregor Schneider

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Ich wache auf Eine Junge Frau liegt neben mir. Das licht fällt auf ihren blassen körper. Sie at mit nicht. Ich warme sie. sie sieht wunderschön und glucklich aus. Rhydt 1995 Ein toter Mensch liegt auf dem Boden. Licht fällt auf den blassen Körp ...

Death, Installation, Light, Room, Unbuilt Roads