Press and Other Updates
You might be wondering what we do and how the Great Pyramid fares. So: We´re doing quite well actually. Over the last couple of weeks new colleagues have joined the Great Pyramid team who bring in more than twenty years experience in the real estate and internet industry. Together we have fixed a few shortcomings of the original concept concerning location, product portfolio and distribution of pyramid stones. Now we feel rather well prepared to launch stage II of the project in spring 2008.
Coming up next is the Great Pyramid Gala in a beautiful theater in Berlin on March 5, 2008. The results of the Architectural Competition will be announced by the jury and we will bring the whole project on a new level. Ticket sales will start in January 2008.
Meanwhile, the Great Pyramid has been covered by more media. Qvest, Monopol and German Vanity Fair ran short stories (all in German). An extensive reportage has appeared in Magdeburg based „Volksstimme“ and Anhalt-Dessau´s regional mag LEO put the Great Pyramid on its October cover. It almost seems, all Saxony-Anhalt slowly realizes the chance..
Today, the relaunch issue of ABITARE arrived from Milan. In there the opening story about the Great Pyramid comes as a text by Ingo Niermann in which he reflects on the project looking back from the year 2047. Also included a series of wonderful illustrations by Madelon Vriesendorp, one of the original founders of OMA back in 1975, plus loads of images of the very first stone bookers from the reservation list, that has tripled since the piece had been written.
Permanent original layout links (German):Volksstimme, LEO
Respect for the death, is the word to describe the building of this pyramide.
But there also the living, remaining…..
Can we decide to build such an energy absorbing site in times in which our fossile energy is going to be scarce.
One stone will cost about 200 litres of fossile fuel!
Piet Voordijk
Excellent point, Piet! Resource efficiency is something we also thought about and are aware of as a point we will have to sort out in greater detail, even though most people would most probably not expect this to be a major drawback of a Pyramid stone.
When they think of the fact that they would burn the amount of fuel you stated as a public transport commuter over he course of only a couple of months if not weeks, they might feel it´s perfectly ok to have half a cubic meter of concrete consumed for their burial or memorial.
A good impression of the Great Pyramid´s significance as a waste of resources however is: If for every single dead in the world a Pyramid stone would be set, worldwide consumption of concrete would rise by only 0.5%!