Toilets, Sheep Stables & Museums: World Building Of The Year Shortlist Announced
A total of 224 projects from 43 countries have been nominated, including a fire station in Mexico, a public toilet in Texas, a women's health centre in Burkina Faso, a writer's retreat in Costa Rica, a sheep stable in the Netherlands, a private cemetery in Lebanon, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston – the first new museum to be built in the American city for 100 years.
monochrom is an art-technology-philosophy group having its seat in Vienna and Zeta Draconis. monochrom is an unpeculiar mixture of proto-aesthetic fringe work, pop attitude, subcultural science, context hacking and political activism. Our mission is conducted everywhere, but first and foremost in culture-archeological digs into the seats (and pockets) of ideology and entertainment. monochrom has existed in this (and almost every other) form since 1993. [more]