Kurt Goodrich Artworks

VISUAL FOOTNOTES

Monuments of Bull Street (white male)

Bull Street Axis Upside Down

Mary Miss

Alan Sonfist

Edward Kienholz

Various Others

REGIONAL PLAN   plan el. aerial

Framing the Center

Suburban Entropy

Rail Lines

Global Positioning

FRAMING THE CENTER   plan el. aerial

Original Twenty-five Squares

Bull Street Axis of the Monuments

Edge Prepared

Twenty-five Buildings Indexed to Squares

Waterfront Deconstruction

City Hall Freestanding

Cotton Exchange Building Freestanding

Bridges of the  Peripatetic's

BAY STREET   plan el. aerial

Factor's Walk

Waterfront Area of Deconstruction

Zoological Garden

City Hall-Cotton Exchange Buildings Freestanding

Bridges of the Peripatetic's

BAY STREET   plan el. -10.0'

Factor's Walk

Waterfront Area of Deconstruction

Zoological Garden

City Hall-Cotton Exchange Buildings Freestanding

Bridges of the Peripatetic's

Parking

WEST BROAD STREET   plan el. aerial

Area of Intensity

Twenty-five Buildings Indexed to Squares

WEST BROAD STREET   plan el. -10.0'

Area of Intensity

Piloti for Twenty-five Buildings

Maglev Station Platform

Parking

JOHNSON SQUARE   plan el. aerial

Bull Street Axis of the Monuments

anti-Monument to the Yamacraw

City Hall Freestanding-Penetration Marked

Time Landscape

Bridge of the Peripatetic's

CITY HALL   plan/elevation

Bull Street Axis of the Monuments

anti-Monument to the Yamacraw

City Hall Freestanding-Penetration Marked

North Fountain

Zoological Garden

Parking below

COTTON EXCHANGE BUILDING   plan/elevation

Bay Street

Factor's Walk

Cotton Exchange Building Freestanding

Waterfront Area of Deconstruction

Zoological Garden

Parking below

COTTON EXCHANGE BUILDING   sections

Waterfront Area of Deconstruction

Cotton Exchange Building Freestanding

Zoological Garden

Factor's Walk

Bay Street

Parking

TWENTY-FIVE BUILDINGS   sections/elevations

West Broad Street Area of Intensity

Twenty-five Buildings Indexed to Squares

Maglev Station Platform

Parking

BUILDING ONE   plan/axonometric

Bay and West Broad Street Intersection

Building One Indexed to Johnson Square

Linear Collector Building

Bridge of the Peripatetic's

Parking

BUILDING ONE & TWO   plan/axonometric

Building One Indexed to Johnson Square

Building Two Indexed to Wright Square

Linear Collector Building

Bridges of the Peripatetic's

Parking

The Bone Yards  

In 1994 is was reported in a NY Times article that in a desert of southern Arizona a fleet of three hundred and fifty B-52 Bombers lie in retirement.   These bombers were not part of the 'Rosinen Bombers' that the US used to assist Berlin with food drops during the early days of it's recovery following the end of WWII, they were the destructive side of the US Arsenal.   The NY Times article went on to state that over the next three and a half years, with the help of a 13,000 pound guillotene, the planes were scheduled to be chopped into four pieces each.   For ninety days following dismemberment, the two wings, the tail, and the body of the planes would be left where they fell, on the floor of the desert (visible at the bottom of the image to the left).    This ninety day period, via a disarmament agreement, enabled Russian satellites to observe compliance.   Following the ninety day period, the pieces would be sold as scrap metal for sixteen cents per pound, a mere fraction of the three hundred forty-five dollar per pound value of the bombers when they were operational.   The GNP Corp was interested...

The Final Act

In the preparation of Berlin, the final act involved the GNP's purchase and displacement of the wings of these B-52 Bombers, all three hundred and fifty pairs, to a Philadelphia shipyard where they would co-mingle with a collection of Soviet War Ships (also being dismantled as part of the disarmament agreement) prior their reconstitution as flotation devices.   With their engines serving as ballast these wings will then set off towards the Old World.   The compartments now filled with various forms of artifacts; products of the generous support from various corporate sponsors and other sorts of endowed subjects thus providing weight against the phenomenon of hydroplaning.   Once these flotation devices are securely anchored in Berlin -- a performance that is projected to last three and a half years and thus correspond to the recultivation of the Tiergarten -- the artifacts compartmentalized in the wings will then be subject to exchange with the debris from Berlin's reconstitution as the new German National Capitol.   The compartments of the flotation devices -- now utilized for shoring -- will remain unlocked in this repository under the Unter den Linden.

under the Unter den Linden, against which Foreign Embassies now reside, serves as the appropriate site for this collection of material artifacts subject to erasure during the reconstitution of Berlin, as well as the dissolution of the two former Superpowers, both of which constitute useless economies subject to re-enchantment by the Global Non-Profit Corporation.   A performance which not only reciprocates the events surrounding the construction of the Siegessaule and the Statue of Liberty -- the beginning of the siege -- but also serves to acknowledge, however belatedly, the frustrations experienced by those Soviet Architects -- now swimmers -- exiled in their Constructivist Pool, as imagined by Rem Koolhaas (see Berlin Reprieve).

Bomber Wings

Reconstituted as Flotation Devices

Operable Compartments for Various Artifacts from the Global

Engines as Ballast

Bomber Wings                                         under the Unter den Linden

An excavation the width of the median and approximately 80' feet deep to accommodate the scale of the wings mounted on both sides.   Wings act as shoring devices with storage compartments for material artifacts from the Global Exchange open to the inhabitants of Berlin and its visitors.

Regional Collage

Geopolitical Location

Stadtmitte

SpreeBogen Competition Brief

Stadtmitte Schematic Map

Preparation One:  The Wall Zone

Circumscription:  Field of Events

Contested Axis

Virtual Center

Hole in a Hole

Spree Insel

Contested Axis / Virtual Planes

Siegesalle

North/South (Hitler/Speer)

Soviet Memorial

Preparation One:  The Wall Zone

Preparation Two:  The Desire

Recultivation of the Tiergarten and Repositories One: Excavations, Foundations,  Egress for the Future Government Building Sites 

Virtual Center                                           Circumscription / Field of Events

Repositories Series One:                        Excavations Sloped down from Perimeter of Circumscription to Virtual Center, with Foundations and Egress for all Future Government Building Sites

Repositories Series Two:                      under the Unter den Linden                   Excavation & Installation of Bomber Wings as Shoring Devices

Hole in a Hole:                                  Sloping Ground Plane within Wall Zone down from East to West against Sloping Ground Plane within Wall Zone down from Perimeter of Circumscription to Center

Preparation One:  The Wall Zone         Time Landscape, Excavation to Depth of  Former Wall and Sloping Ground Plane within Wall Zone down from East to West 

Preparation Two:  The Desire               Fragments from the Tiergarten; Paths, Spielplatze, Landscaping

Spree Insel

Preparation Two:  The Desire                   Fragments form the Tiergarten; Roads, Paths, Spielplatze, Landscaping

Repositories Series One:                         Excavations Sloped down from Perimeter of Circumsription to Virtual Center with Foundations and Egress for all Future Government Building Sites