Unbuilt Roads | Agency of Unrealized Projects

U9533

01.01.1992

AUSSICHTSTURM, HOLZHAUS (WOHNHAUS), SCHWIMMBECKEN, FREIE FAHRT - Maria Eichhorn

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AUSSICHTSTURM Auf der höchsten Erhebung einer Landschaft einen 33 Meter hohen Aussichtsturm in einer offenen Konstruktion (Stahlskelettbauweise) bauen. Mit standigen Offnungszeiten. HOLZHAUS (WOHNHAUS) In einer Gegend mit wenigen oder keinen Hau ...

Economy, Family, House, Landscape, Swimming, Tower, Transportation

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

U9528

01.01.1988

Billboard - Jimmie Durham

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a "U.S, Highway" - size billboard structure built along some street or auto-route. It would be complete with lights, but built on a structure to look at, that is to say, without a 'message' Without text or images superimposed. (eventually reasons why ...

America, Billboard, Commerical, Ireland

U9726

01.01.1971

KEEPING IN TOUCH - Allan Kaprow

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A global network of simultaneously transmitting and receiving " TV Arcades." Open to the public twenty-four hours a day, like any washerette. An arcade in every big city of the world. Each equipped with a hundred or more monitors of different sizes from a ...

arcade, Electronic, Global, Network, Technology, Unbuilt Roads

U9617

01.07.1991

Project pour le parc de sculpture de Vassiviére - Paul-Armand Gette

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Un bloc de granite choisi dans la partie boisée de l'île sera considéré comme étant le centre d'une circonférence de 25m. de rayon, qui, sans que cela soit indiqué sur place d'aucune façon, restera vierge de toutes interventions (aménagements, co ...

Forest, Granite, Island, Scupture, 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

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

U9263

01.01.1974

CIVITAS Stadtpostkarten - Lothar Baumgarten

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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

U9711

01.01.1989

2 Architecture Towers - Robert Irwin

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A competition won in 1989 Tower One: was proposed to sit in a roundabout next to the Chicago river .. 65' (feet) in height, the base an octagonal cast iron construction stands on a slightly mounded cast rubber base ... eight triangular beams thrust upw ...

Architecture, Competition, Tower, Unbuilt Roads

U9785

01.01.1994

Grand Concours International D'Architecture - Mahe Gilles

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Concours de plage ouvert surinvitation a des equipe D' Architectes de renomíe internationale. Objet = construire en untemps limiteé entre lamarée descendante + montante un batiment a l'aide des seuls materials trouvés sur la plage Nature Des ...

Architecture, Beach, Competition, Sand, 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

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

U9567

01.01.1995

Museum - Katharina Fritsch

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Beschreibung des Modells bitte dem Katalog "Katharina Fritsch, Museum, Biennale Venedig 1995" entnehmen. (Erster Abschnitt: Modell 1:10) Der Katalog ist bei Cantz in Stuttgart gedruckt. Previous Publications (?) Katalog der Biennale Venedig 1995 (s ...

Architecture, Ausstellung, Exhibition, Model, Museum, Skulpturen, Unbuilt Roads

U9298

01.01.1991

Visual Poem: Cap I Cua - Joan Brossa

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When the project to built the AVE train (Madrid-Scville-Madrid) was getting started, a design team was put together to design the mobile units of this high-speed train. Visual Poet, Joan Brossa, was asked to collaborate in the final touches of this de ...

Poem, Poetry, Train, Unbuilt Roads, Visual

U9646

16.01.1997

Dog Jaw Monument - A Futurist Tele-introject - Leon Golub

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Years: A.D 2096, A.D. 2777, A.D. 3096 See drawing (to be submitted if desired) note: time - 2096 - becoming a critical exponential extension of the artist's hand (eventual reasons why the work has not been realised) Project has not reached a cri ...

Events, Future, Monument, Pathos, Time, 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

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

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

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

U9941

01.01.1993

No title, as the project only reached proposal stage - Rikrit Tiravanija

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Proposal No. 1 (a) In the exhibition space, in proximation (as precisely as possible) to actual space. Replicate (Reconstruct) in architectural scale, space and in specific: detail, the office of the director of the museum. (b) All contents (in deta ...

Architecture, Director, Museum, Unbuilt Roads

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

U9903

01.01.1994

Art and Ourselves: A Proposal for the city of Nordhorn - Allen Rupperssberg

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see my catalog from the Magazine. The complete text is there. (eventually reasons why the work has not been realised) Political Previous Publications (?) Catalog from where art Magazine 1996 Exisiting Documents: to be requested from No ...

Culture, Exchange, Memory, Nordhorn, Theater, Unbuilt Roads

U9562

01.01.1994

Catwalk - Sylive Fleury

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An outdoor concrete sculpture, yet uncompleted. This minimal sculpture is to be built using the traditional catwalk runway model, as in use for most fashion shows. Although adaptable, it should be constructed according to standard proportions, in a ...

Fashion, Installation, Public, Public art, Public Intervention, Unbuilt Roads

U9882

23.01.1964

Time Magazine Cover - Robert Rauschenberg

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Solvent transfer, watercolor, pencil, crayon and tape on illustration board. 13 3/4" x 9 7/3" Robert Rauschenberg was asked to do a cover for Time Magazine to celebrate the opening of the World's Fair at Flushing Meadows in New York City, in 1964. The ...

Design, magazine, New York City, Time Magazine, Unbuilt Roads

U9759

06.04.1997

Monument to Democracy - Kounellis

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La scultura doveva essere posata davanti alla nuova ala del parlamento olandese di Den Haag. Sono partito dalla struttura ampia, di grande presenza, degll fumaioli che si vedevano sui tetto del vecchio parlamento. Questa strutture architectonica era diven ...

Den Haag, Goverment, Monument, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads, Van Gogh

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