Steven S. Lee
Dec 08, 2020
3 minutes
lanned to stretch higher than the Eiffel Tower, Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International (1920) projected the utopian ambitions of the Bolsheviks and Constructivists alike. Its intertwined iron spirals were to contain three spinning glass structures housing the headquarters for the Soviet-led world revolution. Communist radio was to be broadcast from the top, and agitational slogans were to be projected onto surrounding clouds. These dreams never came to fruition, but they found an echo in the steel diagrid of Moscow’s Shukhov Radio Tower, built between 1919 and
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