Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

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

U9622

01.01.1970

119. PROJET DE DESTRUCTION DU MUSEE 1970 - 1971 - Jef Geys

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Plan pour devoir Musée o'anu[?]s avec autorisation et aide de ministères contactes (Eventuellement raisons pour lesquelles le travail n'a pu etre realise) Refus ministères de la defense etc. Publications: Kempens informatieblad Contact ...

Departments, Destruction, French, Museum, Unbuilt Roads

U9628

19.11.1969

Unrealized project for Tate Gallery + ICA, 1969 - Gilbert and George

Unbuilt Roads

Memo to: Director From: Richard Christmas Crib sculpture by Gilbert and George Gilbert and George have asked if, despite our discouraging reply about their recent proposal to present a sculpture for one evening, I will present to you personally the ...

authenticity, Christmas, ICA, London, Performance, Sculpture, Tate, Unbuilt Roads

U9973

23.01.1993

Brücke Wein-Kanal Arch. Hermann Czech, Wein - Franz West

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Denen, die in dieselben Flüsse steigen, fließen immer neue Wasser zu , und (immer neue) Seelen entsteigen der Feuchtigkeit. Heraklit, Fragment 12[1] Linkes Brückenauflager Ansicht Nordwest M 1:33 ...

Bridge, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads, Wien

U9303

01.06.1990

PROPOSAL FOR SEATTLE ARTS COMMISSION, IN PUBLIC - Chris Burden

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I propose that a typical working fisherman's boat 30 to 50 feet in length be attached to the side of the new Seattle Art Museum building. The boat's bow would point skyward, it's keel resting along one side of the building . A cable from the roof to the b ...

Architecture, Boat, fishing, Museum, Public, Seattle, Unbuilt Roads

U9478

01.01.1984

Projets non réalisés: - Daniel Buren

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La liste non exhaustive qui suit correspond une á série de projets qui n'ont pas abouti. Ils sont de plusieurs types et les raisons de leur non aboutissement sont également différentes. Tout d'abord, tous sont liés des situations précises et dict ...

Colors, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads, Urban, Urbanizing, Windows

U9752

01.01.1997

The bridge according to Jeong-a's dream - Koo Jeong

Unbuilt Roads

round bridge in the middle of the sea to be approached by boat ...

Boat, Dreams, Ocean, Unbuilt Roads

U9701

01.01.1994

Festival du film de famille - Pierre Huyghe

Unbuilt Roads

Le Festival du film de famille est un événement qui séted sur 3 jours, c'est le pant de dipart d'une dénie partagée qui peut se répéter sur plusieurs [arnisé?]. Une communanté affactive [illisible] son [basan?] d'histories par sa propre producti ...

Family, Festival, Film, Unbuilt Roads

U9864

01.01.1992

Post Photographic apparatus - Steven Pippin

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Description: The impetus came from , or was initially inspired by the endless stream of monotonous images created by the exponential growth in the amount of photographic apparatus. In an effort to counteract this mediocre use of such a powerfull medium ...

Image, Mechanical, Photography, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9736

12.03.1997

Battery Park City - Per Kirkeby

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Dear Mr. Kirkeby Today I received the ektachromes for the book on unrealised projects form Michael Werner in New York-many thanks. We would be most thankful if you could fax us some more text related to these projects. With my best regards Hans Ulrich ...

City, Park, Public, Site Specific, Unbuilt Roads

U9877

01.01.1989

Projekt für die Landschaft des Mont-de-Sene (Burgund) im Rahmen eines öffentlichen Auftrags des französischen Kultusministeriums - Markus Raetz

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Das Projekt bestand aus der Aushöhlung einer Felswand und einer in den Fels gehauenen Treppe, die zu ihr hin führte. ...

Architecture, Rock, Stairs, 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

U9816

05.02.1990

The pyramids...to be seen to be believed - Jonathan Monk

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Glasgow 1990 Cultural Capital of Europe 5 February 1990 Mr Jonathan Monk 22 Cecil Street Hillhead Glasgow G12 8RH Dear Jonathan Monk Thank you very much for your exciting letter concerning your proposed project for this year namely ...

Glasgow, Public, Pyramid, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9487

01.01.1997

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

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

U9248

14.02.1997

Electronic Theater - Laurie Anderson

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Dear Hans-Ulrich Obrist, I'm sending some images to you on disk. There are four stills of a theater set. (et 1 and et 2 on the first disk and et 3 and et5 on the second disk.) These are printable using Photoshop 3.0. Here is the text you asked for ...

Set Design, Technology, Theater, Unbuilt Roads

U9958

01.01.1993

Project for the Initiative Mahnmal Homosexuellenverfolgung, Frankfurt - Jeff Wall

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My monument would be a free-standing structure, a life-size open air cafe-terrace that the public could enter. It is a 12-sided ellipse with two entrances, and would be a careful recreation of such a place in a style typical of the 1920s. It would be made ...

Imagination, Monument, Museum, Public, Unbuilt Roads

U9892

16.02.1997

Fax Transmission - Raymond Pettibone and Jason Rhoades

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Fax to: HANS-ULRICH OBRIST From Jason Rhoades Greeting HAN-ULRICH Well the project sounded great but I didn't have any unfulfilled projects that I sad appropriate for the project, but just last sunday I was at the race track with raymon pettibone ...

Animals, Collaboration, Fire, Horse, 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

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

U9963

01.01.1994

Ruderaltisch, 1994/95 Kunst am Bau - Projekt - Lois Weinberger

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Die Arbeit besteht aus einem Betontisch im Freien / auf dem erdgefüllte / allgegenwärtige Behälter / wie entleerte Öldosen / leere Farbkübel / „unverwüstliche Plastiksäcke" stehen. Eine Bepflanzung wird nicht vorgenommen / da die im Freiland ...

East Berlin, East Germany, Table, Unbuilt Roads

U9263

01.01.1974

CIVITAS Stadtpostkarten - Lothar Baumgarten

Unbuilt Roads

Einige Überlegungen zur Emblematik von Ansichtskarten. Abgebildete Sehenswürdigkeiten gelangen auf Ansichtskarten durch die häufig gewählte Zentralperspektive in die Nähe ausgestellter Backwaren. Die siegelhaft stilisierte Heraldik, eines immer wiede ...

Architecture, Bridges, City, Postcard, Tourism, Unbuilt Roads, Urban

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

U9948

30.01.1997

My House - Uri Tzaig

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Like initiation, one has to build his own house, as shown to him in his own dreams. Useing the colors he likes, the shapes he fells, the distances his own body needs, giving names to things, functions, in his language. This house, that was built in my min ...

House, Interior design, Language, Unbuilt Roads

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