The Thousand Gates, by Christo and Jeanne Claude, 1979-2005 - in Central Park, New York City, USA
Reorganization of Colina de Pombal Castle (Installation), by Comoco, 2011 - in Pombal Portugal
House of Stone, by John Pawson, 2010 - in Milan, Italy
Coinciding with the Milan Furniture Fair, the 2010 Interni Think Tank was billed as a ‘laboratory of ideas for the projects of tomorrow’. Architects and designers were assigned a manufacturing partner and commissioned to create installations for a series of sites within the city’s Università degli Studi.
The Stone House is a response both to its location in the double-arcaded Cortile Settecento and to the character of an innovative recycled stone product, Lithoverde – literally ‘green stone’ - developed by John Pawson’s project collaborator - Salvatori.
”Ultra-Light Village” Pavilion , by Wang Shu, 2011 - on display in shenzhen’s civic square at the 2011 shenzhen & hong kong bi-city biennale of architecture \ urbanism
Steilneset Memorial, by Peter Zumthor and Louise Bourgeois - in Vardo, Norway
In memory of those persecuted in the seventeenth-century Finnmark Witchcraft Trials, the Steilneset Memorial rests along the jagged coastline of the Barents Sea in Vardø, Norway.
Zumthor simply describes his collaboration with Bourgeois in an interview with ArtInfo as the following, “I had my idea, I sent it to her, she liked it, and she came up with her idea, reacted to my idea, then I offered to abandon my idea and to do only hers, and she said, ‘No, please stay.’ So, the result is really about two things — there is a line, which is mine, and a dot, which is hers… Louise’s installation is more about the burning and the aggression, and my installation is more about the life and the emotions [of the victims].”
The Matter of Time, by Richard Serra.
This installation was made purposely for the Guggenheim from Bilbao and it occupies is the biggest in the museum - a vast room, some 430 ft long by 80 ft wide. Its made out of steel sheets, about two inches thick and up to 50ft long and 14 ft high. These are curved in a rolling-mill along both the horizontal and vertical axes, as though they were mere sheets of tin.
