Orbit tower and Tatlin's tower

published May 11, 2012 09:17 by admin ( last modified May 11, 2012 09:17 )

A new tower sculpture has been unveiled in London. In a Guardian Article the designers liken it to the Tower of Babel in the Bible, but I am reminded of Tatlin's tower, a tower sculpture that was proposed in the Soviet Union, but never built.

Tatlin's idea was to create a monument to the Bolshevik revolution, by way of a 400m tower consisting of four suspended geometric structures designed to make full revolutions over different periods of time.

Doing a search and again ending up on the Guardian web site, I realised the designers were indeed inspired by Tatlin's Tower:

Kapoor and Balmond sat down with a sketch pad and thought what the reference points might be. As well as Eiffel, they thought of Tatlin's Tower (the vast constructivist monument conceived for Petrograd in the year of the Russian Revolution, but never built)