Aldo Rossi’s San Cataldo cemetery, a ‘City for the Dead’.
Construction began in 1978 and to this day stands at roughly fifty percent completion. The site was originally to contain the ossuary cube and a series of rib-like buildings, which terminated in a cone housing the communal graves.
Mircea Nicolae, ‘Glass globes’ (2008)
Brick fragments from 25 demolished houses, shaped with an electric power tool, and then placed inside 25 glass globes found in a deserted glass factory. The project questions the destruction of private houses built at the end of the XIXth century and in the first part of the XXth century in the central area of Bucharest, Romania. Currently, these buildings are being demolished and replaced with blocks of flats or business headquarters, thus evicting an important segment of the built memory of the city.
Ján Mancuška, ‘800 Ways to Describe a Chair’ (2004)
Multiple gunshots are taken at a chair sitting against a wall. After the wall has been marked, the chair is removed, leaving its silhouette behind.
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