Sol LeWitt, Pyramid (Keystone NZ), standard concrete blocks, Gibbs Farm, New Zealand, 1997
A huge manmade mountain measuring 420 meters long, 270 meters wide, 38 meters high and elliptical in shape was planted with eleven thousand trees by eleven thousand people from all over the world at the Pinziö gravel pits near Ylöjärvi, Finland, as part of a massive earthwork and land reclamation project by environmental artist Agnes Denes
‘Vision of Hell: Orpheus’ ground sculpture at Broughton House, Northants, Kim Wilkie
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Isamu Noguchi - 1968
project: model for Sculpture to be Seen from Mars (originally titled ‘Monument to Man’), 1947.
Robert Smithson (1938-1973) Domus 531 / February 1974 page detail. The Amarillo Ramp, Texas started by Robert Smithson and completed by Richard Serra, Nancy Holt, and Tony Shafrazi. via Domusweb
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Memorial to a Buried Village via BLDGBLOG
Inspired by the many hiking trips that the two students from China have enjoyed during their studies at ETHZ, the entry is based on the idea of a hypothetical mudflow in the Swiss Alps burying a village. The project works with columns of transparent thermoplastic planted into the earth as a metaphorical representation of the former village. Sunlight is being transmitted through the columns into the subterranean space, where they illuminate a poetic memory of the former rooms in the buried houses.
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Luminous Earth Grid by Stuart Williams
Luminous Earth Grid, an array of 1,680 energy-efficient fluorescent lamps, swept over 10 acres of undulating landscape, 50 miles north of San Francisco. Said the artist, “I see the project as a poetic statement on the potential harmony between technology and nature.” Over a five year period, Williams launched a rigorous fund raising campaign throughout Northern California, and raised nearly half a million dollars to realize the massive project. It was widely acclaimed by critics around the globe and drew tens of thousands of visitors.
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Artist Jaroslaw Koziara grew this gigantic ‘crop circle’ fish on fields between Horodyszcze (Poland) and Warez (Ukraine) for the Land Art Festival. He wanted to symbolize the history of unity and of trade along the border between the two nations, showing that nature and culture exist beyond the geo-political borders laid down by humans. The artist grew the installation by sowing 23 kinds of plants along the border in the shape of two fish.
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Yann Arthus Bertrand.
Drawing of a hummingbird in Nazca, Peru
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Open Space. Yuma and Washington County Line, Colorado. 2011 – Ongoing
Sited in a wheat field in Eastern Colorado this contemplative environment invites visitors to focus on place and connect with ones sensory experiences of the cycle of farming. The wooden platform was built using the remnants from Yuma County’s original rodeo arena, and is designed to “lift” the 24-foot geodesic dome to the height of a fully-grown stock of wheat. As wheat around the structure matures, the built components seem to gently float on the top of the vast High-Plains landscape.
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Bikini Lines - Christian Forestell via urbanartcore and Orphicpixel
The world’s largest painting, Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)
The canvas is the Cactus Dome that was built by the U.S. military between 1977-1980, according to Forestell. It was built in order to trap radiation levels that U.S. nuclear bomb testing caused in years prior.
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Woven branch circular arch, Langholm, Andy Goldsworthy, April 1986
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