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Tatlin's Tower - The Monument to the Third International

Supposed to be erected in Petrograd/St. Petersburg after the revolution in 1917, as headquarters and monument to Comintern. Symbolic of modernity, a rival to the Eiffel Tower in Paris.



Structure was to be created from industrial materials, steel, iron, glass...A main helix spiralled down 400m and the framework was meant to house three/four suspended structures. The base was a cube, designed for lectures, meetings, would rotate on a central axis once a year. The second level would rotate once a month, the third once a day. A radio tower at the top would be used for news bulletins and propaganda material. This is an example of the desire at this time to show power and strength; though it was intended to be built, the building materials were simply not available in post-Revolution Russia, especially in the context of widespread poverty.

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