Chris Burden + Hood

What My Dad Gave Me by Chris Burden is the latest project from the Public Art Fund and Tishman-Speyer, one of the owners of Rockefeller Center.

It's a 65-foot tall model of a skyscraper built out of around one million custom-made, nickel-plated steel beams that replicate the pieces in A.C. Gilbert's original 1913 Erector Set. No. 1

It took Burden's lackeys almost a year to construct [in sections] at the artist's Topanga Canyon studio. Then it was test-assembled, dismantled, flown out of the canyon by helicopter, and shipped to Manhattan for re-assembly.

Burden has been working in the medium of Erector Set replica parts for nearly ten years. In the NY Times article previewing What My Dad Gave Me, the artist makes much of the significance ot using actual toys:

Article from the New York Times.

Iñaki Bonillas + Mies van der Rohe

More info here.

Jérôme Schlomoff + Mies van der Rohe

Stenope d'architecture. Pavillon Mies van der Rohe, Barcelone, 1996.

Callum Morton + Le Corbusier

Callum Morton, Monument # 2 – Carpark, 2006. Image courtesy the artist and Anna Schwartz Gallery

Callum Morton + Murcutt

Glennville Souvenirs, Mt Irvine, NSW, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Mies van der Rohe

Farnshaven, Illinois, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Rietveld

Toys ‘R’ Us, Utrecht, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Niemeyer

Callum Morton
Estrada Das Liberdade, Rio de Janeiro, 2001

digital print
54 × 150cm
Edition of 30

Callum Morton + Mies van der Rohe

International Style (time lapse sequence), 1999 Acrylic, automotive paint, vinyl, lights, sound
240 × 80 × 50cm
(Installation)

Callum Morton + Adrian

Mac Attack, Wahroonga, NSW, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Loos

Continental Girls, Paris, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Libera

Casa Spizzico, Capri, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Eames

Casa Spizzico, Capri, 2001 digital print
59 × 84cm
Edition of 30; (105 x 155 cm) edition of 5

Callum Morton + Safdie

Habitat

Callum Morton's Habitat is a 1:50 scale architectural model of Safdie's 'Habitat', to which lights and sound have been added to suggest a day in the life of the housing complex. As the sun rises we see and hear the day begin, and we imagine the lives of the people within the building. Conversations and activity continue for 28 minutes (one fiftieth of a day) and then the lights dim as a simulated nighttime commences. The cycle continues in perpetuity, and whilst the viewer is free to leave this room, the inhabitants of the building are trapped. Thus Safdie's dream of community living is juxtaposed with a sham reality. Building dwellers are locked in a diminutive scale and accelerated time frame, bound to do the same things day-in, day-out, all caught in a cycle of unending routine.

A brochure of the project can be dowloaded here.

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster + Barragan

Exoplanet

Various coloured plastic ball, one mirrored glass ball located on the roof.

Iñaki Bonillas + Barragan

"Photo (Barragan House)"
2003
21 x 21 cm
Photo mounted on aluminium, Ed. /5

Niklas Goldbach + Dondel, Aubert, Viard and Dastugue

DAWN
Video Loop, 1:12 min, HD Video, silent, 2008

DAWN was filmed in the abandoned basement floor of the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Originally designed by Dondel, Aubert, Viard and Dastugue, the Palais was completed for the International Exhibition of 1937. Though the palace's 30s classicism exterior remained intact, the interior has undergone a succession of alterations. This had advanced to a point at which the building had been made structurally unsafe, and the interior come to resemble a ruin. In 2001 the Palais got partly reconstructed: the architects Lacaton & Vassal generated 8000 square metres for a contemporary art gallery space, a bookshop and a restaurant.
The video shows around 60 people lying motionless on sleeping bags in the still unrenovated basement floor of the Palais de Tokyo while a disco ball is slowly rotating.

Niklas Goldbach + MVRDV

GAN EDEN
Video, 10:00 min, DV PAL, Stereo, 2006

Video excerpt here

With: Niklas Goldbach, Viktor Neumann
Camera, Editing, Postproduction: Niklas Goldbach
Assistance: Viktor Neumann
Foley Artist: Martin Langenbach
Sound Design by Christian Obermaier
Sound Mix by Poleposition D.C.

The second in a series of videos about utopia in urban culture, GAN EDEN was filmed in 2005 in the pavilion of the Netherlands, built by MVRDV for the World EXPO 2000 in Hanover, Germany.
Meant as both a critique of consumer society and as an example of environmentally-sustainable architecture, the Dutch entry for the World’s Fair was an exploration of the idea of limited space, engaged with the question of whether increasing population density can co-exist with an increase in the quality of life, and what role nature will play in that dynamic. Abandoned at the end of the World EXPO, the pavilion has already fallen into disrepair.
The video shows two men engaged in an ambiguous movement, both walking and cruising, through the space of this contemporary ruin.
The Biblical word gan (as in GAN EDEN) means walled garden.