Tatlin’s Tower or The Monument to the Third International
Designed by Vladimir Tatlin who was an architect during the Russian Constructivist movement. He envisioned a tower bigger than the Eiffel Tower in Paris and it would have many moving parts. The purpose was to "combine a machine aesthetic with dynamic components celebrating technology." It would resemble a twin helix but he partitioned the tower into three separate levels. The first at the base of the tower would rotate very slowly and do a full rotation once a year, the second would rotate once a month and the top would complete its rotation every day. The tower was to be created out of industrial materials; iron, glass, steel, all of these things helped with the modern thinking at the time he gave careful thought to the materials, the shape, and the functionality.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatlin's_Tower
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_constructivism
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