Now the city wants to restore some of them as part of a global push for free drinking water. Hundreds of water fountains built by the Ottomans in Istanbul have run dry and are in disrepair. Between incomplete data and technology restraints, it isn’t easy to develop one. Take a moment to appreciate all the people who gave us the many Covid-19 dashboards that helped us better understand the pandemic. Often executed in the neon colors of a public works department, these installations looked like works in progress, as if they were markers for ongoing improvements. Such fleeting displays were never the nut of the idea that Christo and Jeanne-Claude were pursuing. 6.5 million square feet: fabric used to wrap 11 islands near Miami for “ Surrounded Islands”.24 years: time it took to get permission for “ Wrapped Reichstag”.1,686: pages in the Environmental Impact Statement drafted for “ Over the River”.6 miles: proposed length of canopy to be draped over Arkansas River for “ Over the River”.7,503: gates erected in Central Park for “ The Gates”.1.9 miles: red rope used to wrap the monumentĪs for the rest of their works, here’s a taste of some of the more awesome numbers:.
270,000 square feet: fabric used to wrap the arch.16 days: the run of “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped”.It’s worth considering it through the lens of the sheer effort this it took to pull off: (Only one outstanding proposal remains worldwide: “ The Mastaba,” a ziggurat comprising 410,000 oil barrels planned for Abu Dhabi.) After a career spanning decades and continents, little but memories remain to commemorate the artists’ monumental efforts.įor a mere two-week payoff, wrapping the Arc de Triomphe was a huge task. Unfortunately for those of us who loved to see this memorial transformed, “L’Arc de Triomphe, Wrapped” marks the end for Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s installations for Paris.
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