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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

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

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

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

U9572

01.01.1992

Engel-Detektor - Jakob Gautel & Jason Karaïndros

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"Looking into the heart of light, the silence . . . " - T. S. Eliot «Un agne passe» - „Ein Engel schwebt durch den Raum" - ein Moment due Ruhe, der selten geworden ist in unserer Gesellschaft, die vom visuellen und sonoren horror vacui verflogt wir ...

Angel, Ars Technica, Engel, Espace Electra, Paris, Sound, Unbuilt Roads

U9706

01.01.1989

The insurer - Fabrice Hybert

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

U9293

01.01.1978

The World is a Theater and we each have a role - Louise Bourgeois

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A circular construction in wood, painted sky blue and white. In 3 dimensions. An upside down dome. A small figure stands in the center. (eventually reasons why the work has not be realized) Complicated and too expensive but never discarded. ...

Metaphor, Sculpture, Space, Unbuilt Roads, Universe, Wood

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

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

U9926

01.01.1997

The Rosetta Garden - Gary Simmons

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In collaboration with Brooklyn Technical High School and Andrea Claire The Rosetta Garden Proposal for a vacant lot, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Gary Simmons' proposal is both a reclamation of vacant land and the physical embodiment of philosophical pu ...

Community, Garden, History, Rosetta Stone, 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

U9769

05.02.1997

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

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

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

U9628

19.11.1969

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

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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

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

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

U9497

07.04.1997

Jake and Dinos Chapman's five proposals for an empty plinth situated on central londons trafalgar square - Jake and Dinos Chapman

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commissioned by liberal daily broadsheet newspaper ironically suggesting the most unsuitable artists possible to produce the most unsuitable public sculpture never to be realized: ha ha ha, very funny we suggest one of the following: project 'Hawki ...

Drugs, Food, Guns, London, Public, Public Intervention, Science, Sculpture, Unbuilt Roads

U9752

01.01.1997

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

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

Boat, Dreams, Ocean, Unbuilt Roads

U9610

01.01.1988

Tulips for Amsterdam - Isa Genzken

Unbuilt Roads

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

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

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

U9290

01.01.1997

d'un projet dédié aux victimes de la Shoah. - Christian Boltanski

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Il y a quelques années, j'ai éte invité à réfléchir à la réalisation d'un projet dédié aux victimes de la Shoah. Ce monument devait être installé en face du Reichstag à Berlin. J'avais répondu alors que je pensais que les monuments étaient ...

Berlin, Holocaust, Monument, Reflection, Unbuilt Roads

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

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