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U9918

01.01.1994

Eight Days a Week - Joe Scanlan

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In 1994, after several years of studying the history of calendars and their basis in the solar system, I designed a new calendar that was more "in tune" with my personal rhythms. Although it contained the same 365 days, the calendar was divided into 15 In ...

Calendar, Planets, Space, Time, Unbuilt Roads

U9591

01.01.1987

The World Record - General Idea

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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 ...

Canada, Geography, Images, Sign, Toronto, Unbuilt Roads, World

U9253

01.01.1969

A FAIRLY TALL TOWER, 48,000 Miles High - - Siah Armajani

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Location: Outer Space Status: Theoretical study Proposal to build a self-supporting tower suspended in space but anchored at one point to the earth (U. S. ). All synchronous satellites of the earth are located at the synchronous altitude. This al ...

Architecture, Earth, Physics, Science, Space, Unbuilt Roads

U9804

25.03.1997

Unrealized Projects - Jonas Meckas

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Dear Hans Ulrich: Tonight I am thinking about my unrealized projects. I have many of them. One is: To publish a book of IDEAS. I consider that ideas are the cheapest thing in the world. I have about 10,000 of them. But I have no time to put them all in ...

Books, Diaries, Ideas, river, 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

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

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

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

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

U9610

01.01.1988

Tulips for Amsterdam - Isa Genzken

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Auf dem Wege nach Amsterdam sollten wir 30 meter hohe stahltulpen im würde leicht Schwingend die Autofahrer. Links und rechts oder Autobahn begrußen. (Jede Blüte in ihre eigenen farbe) (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Die A ...

Amsterdam, Blumen, Flowers, Highway, Metal, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9793

01.01.1997

Isometric Projection - Sol Lewitt

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Architecture, Measurement, Sculputure, 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

U9887

01.01.1995

MODELL OF AN OFFICE FOR A COUPLE OF TWINS, BOTH 1,38 TALL" - Tobias Rehrenberg

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WOOD, PLASTIC, 2 CHAIRS ca 180 x 150 x 170 cm PIECE OF THE SHOW "CANCELLED PROJECTS" IN MUSEUM FRIEDERICIANUM KASSEL SUMMER 95 Previous Publications (?) NO Existing Documents (photos, drawings, models): ENCLOSED ...

Installation, Museum, Office, Twins, Unbuilt Roads

U9983

01.01.1994

To Two Too; Hypothetical Monument for a Natural Disaster - Jeffrey Wisniewski

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(222) steel, wire mesh containers, 'gitter boxes', half filled with architectural and cultural debris with other miscellaneous rubble (22) solar panels with battery bank, etc. (solar system) (6) LCD video projectors; video and live television broad ...

Culture, debris, Monument, Natural Disater, Unbuilt Roads

U9807

01.01.1997

Cruzeiro Do Sul, (Southern Cross) (Crucero del Sur) 1969-70* - Cildo Meireles

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A cube with a side measurement of 9 mm, consisting of two transverse sections: one of pine and the other of oak, trees that represented mythical beings in the cosmology of the Tupi Indians, beings whose correlation (mistakenly interpreted by the Jesuits a ...

Cube, Mythology, Trees, Unbuilt Roads, Wood

U9764

01.01.1974

Just Before Dawn - David Lamelas

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Color/16m.m - 50 minutes/£800 JUST BEFORE DAWN by Davd Lamelas The project is basically an analysis of the elements by which narative primarily works on Film Narrative conventions. There is already something that we understand as "comme ...

Film, Hollywood, London, Mystery, Time, 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

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

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

U9268

24.02.1997

The lmprobable Flow - Larry Bell

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Dear Hans: The most passionate times in the studio is the birth of a new idea. It gets all the juices that make being an artist flow. Sadly many wonderful ideas are not realized because one is in the wrong place at the wrong time. I chose to live a ...

Installation, Light, Mexico, Public art, Sculpture, Studio, Unbuilt Roads, Video, Water, Wind

U9503

01.01.1997

NON REALIZED PROJECTS - Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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1964-66 Two Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings, Project for New York, U.S.A. 1967 Wrapped Galleria Nazionale, Project for Rome, Italy. Ponte Sant' Angelo Wrapped, Project for Rome, Italy. Wrapped Trees, Project for Washington Pa ...

Italy, Landscape, Monument, Museums, New York, Unbuilt Roads, Wrappings

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

U9517

01.01.1990

<A Public Misery Message> - Critical Art Ensemble

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A Public Misery Message, was designed as temporary public art for a US city. The Reagan/Bush era was coming to a close, and the financial restructuring of the classes was complete: The top wealth holders in America controlled more wealth than at any previ ...

America, banner, Class, Political, Unbuilt Roads, Wealth

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

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

U9874

01.01.1983

Attitudine Diplomatica - Hermann Pitz

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§79 Proceeding from this in 1983 Pitz negotiated with representatives of the foreign ministry of the Federal Republic of Germany. The attitudine diplomatica project was intended to find out to what point the government was interested in admitting Pi ...

Education, Germany, Government, Unbuilt Roads