A poor giant dropped his icecream-cone on the Neumarkt-Galerie...
Icecream - the right thing in his hot weather (30°C in cologne).
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Edit - August 2007:
In the WS-section you can see it in a book! :-)
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Claes Oldenburg - Dropped Cone, 2001
Stainless and galvanized steels, fiber-reinforced
plastic, balsawood; painted with polyester gelcoat
39 ft. 10 in. (12.1 m) high x 19 ft. (5.8 m) diameter
height above building: 32 ft. 10 in. (10 m)
Fabricated by William Kreysler and Associates, Petaluma, California.
Engineer: Juri Komendant;
Project Managers: William Kreysler and Serge Labesque
Commissioned by Neumarkt Galerie
Installed March 18, 2001
Inaugurated March 19, 2001
For more information please visit: Dropped Cone.