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		<title>Recycled Island</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A floating city of half a million people on a vast plastic island. Recycled Island is a plan to clean up plastic waste from the Pacific Ocean, and provide 10,000 square kilometres of sustainable living space in the process. Solar and wave energy would provide power for islanders while sustainable fishing and agriculture could provide their food.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2010/08/recycled-island/</link>
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		<title>The Berg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[German architect Jakob Tigges explores the outskirts of megalomania with his plan to construct a 1000-meter tall mountain at the site of the recently closed Tempelhof airport in Berlin. If realized, ‘The Berg’ would be the largest man-made icon. A tourist attraction unlike any other.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2010/05/the-berg/</link>
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		<title>Paint Attack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday, 25 April 2010,  there was a 'Paint Attack' on the Rosenthaler Platz in Berlin. Each of the four pedestrian crossings of the junction had been smeared with paint (bright red, yellow, blue and purple). The rest of the work was consequently done by bikes, cars and pedestrians.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2010/05/paint-attack/</link>
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		<title>Cathedral</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the first 40 years no one seemed to notice the man collecting bricks. Almost invisibly, the scrap material mounted on a patch of land 20 km outside Madrid — a pile of crooked bricks, a tangle of steel wire — until, eventually, something remarkable began to take form. Justo Gallego (85) was building a cathedral. And he was building it by himself.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2010/05/cathedral/</link>
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		<title>Stalactite Pipe Organ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Located in the Luray Caverns (Virginia, US) is the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the world's largest musical instrument. Stalactites covering 3 1/2 acres of the surrounding caverns produce tones of symphonic quality when electronically tapped by rubber-tipped mallets.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2010/01/stalactite-pipe-organ/</link>
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		<title>Holland&#8217;s National Artwork</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With Google Earth you can watch satellite photos of the entire planet.
Holland could designate a large amount of land to constitute a huge 'earth painting': square meter by square meter, pixel by pixel. Seen from the skies (and Google Earth) this would result in an art work of gigantic proportions.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2009/10/hollands-national-artwork/</link>
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		<title>Train</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jeff Koons is building one of the world’s most expensive artworks: a 50m sculpture of a crane hauling up a fully functioning steam locomotive.
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		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2009/06/train/</link>
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		<title>Incredible Shrinking Museum</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I dream of a museum about nothing for a society that has everything. This museum would have no guards, gates, or windows, no foundation, no roof.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2009/02/incredible-shrinking-museum/</link>
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		<title>Man on a Wire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Philippe Petit was a teenager in Paris browsing magazines in a dentist's office when he saw a rendering of the (then-unbuilt) World Trade Center in New York. He was electrified. To an aspiring tightrope walker, the idea of two 110-storey towers, side by side, suggested only one thing. In 1974 he made it happen.</span>]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/09/man-on-a-wire/</link>
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		<title>Glass Airplane</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Create an airplane of solid glass. You can see the inside, the engines and all the electrical parts needed to fly - a wonder of machinery.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/06/glass-airplane/</link>
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		<title>Swan turns Crocodile</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Located in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, this bridge is popularly referred to as 'the swan' because of its shape and colour. But with a few moderations, traffic could be driving through the mouth of a crocodile instead.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/06/swan-turns-crocodile/</link>
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		<title>The Biggest Drawing in the World</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The biggest drawing in the world is to be created by GPS tracking &#038; the help of express delivery company DHL. The 'pen' is a briefcase containing a GPS device, which is to be sent around the world. The path the briefcase takes around the globe becomes the strokes of the drawing. The giant strokes pass through 6 continents &#038; 62 countries, becoming 110,664km long.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/06/the-biggest-drawing-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>The Biggest Puzzle of the World</title>
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		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/the-biggest-puzzle/</link>
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		<title>Roden Crater</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Roden Crater is an extinct volcano crater near Flagstaff, Arizona (U.S.). Artist James Turrell purchased the 400.000 year old, 3km wide crater in 1979 and has been transforming it into into a massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena. Mr. Turrell has moved tons of earth to carve out different kinds of viewing chambers and tunnels — making his art of light, sky and astronomical events. Writers have compared it to Stonehenge and the Mexican pyramids. He plans to open the crater for public viewing in 2011.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/roden-crater/</link>
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		<title>Ocean Landmark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ocean Landmark is an underwater work on the floor of the Atlantic ocean, made of 500 tons of processed coal-waste (17,000 coal fly-ash blocks), a potential pollutant that has undergone a planned transformation into a flourishing ecosystem-a lush underwater garden.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/ocean-landmark/</link>
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		<title>Balloon Tattoo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before a woman gets pregnant, surprise her with a Balloon Tattoo. Put a compact image on her belly, which will grow and become more and more discernable as the pregnancy progresses.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/balloon-tattoo/</link>
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		<title>The Headington Shark</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 1986, house owner Bill Heine and sculptor John Buckley put a 25ft fibreglass shark through the roof of his house in Headington, Oxford. It was erected by Mr Heine without applying for any permits. Oxford City Council tried to get rid of the shark on the grounds that the structure was unsafe – but has not succeeded.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/the-headington-shark/</link>
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		<title>The Czech Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ceský Sen (The Czech Dream) was a large-scale hoax perpetuated on Czech advertising industries and public by two film students in 2003. A documentary of the hoax, also entitled "Ceský Sen", was released in February 2004.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/the-czech-dream/</link>
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		<title>Turning the Place Over</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Turning the Place Over was built for the Liverpool Biennial 2007. It consists of an 8 metres diameter ovoid cut from the façade of a building in Liverpool city centre and made to oscillate in three dimensions. The revolving façade rests on a specially designed giant rotator, usually used in the shipping and nuclear industries, and acts as a huge opening and closing ‘window’, offering recurrent glimpses of the interior during its constant cycle.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/turning-the-place-over/</link>
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		<title>Floating Boeing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A replica of a Boeing 747 made out of special foil, filled with helium, fixed at a set position over a residential area. Whereas this work seems easy to make, it in fact requires tens of thousands of euros per week worth of gas to keep it up in the air.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/floating-boeing/</link>
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		<title>Bird Action Painting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On the Galapagos Islands (as well as in other places where millions of sea birds live and breed) birds like the blue footed booby and the albatros shit all over the rocks. They shit so much, in fact, that the rocks are completely painted white with bird shit.

By feeding these birds colorants for a period of time, they will paint the rocks which they live on in all colors of the rainbow instead of just plain white.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/bird-action-painting/</link>
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		<title>This Piece Need Not Be Built</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A pioneer of conceptual art, Lawrence Weiner concluded in the late sixties that the actual construction of a work was not critical to its existence in the world. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/wiener/</link>
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		<title>Moving House</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On a roundabout near the city of Tilburg in the south of the Netherlands, this house was placed on rails and continuously moves around in circles.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/moving-house/</link>
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		<title>Lightbeam on Italian Mountain Village</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The village of Viganella sits at the bottom of a valley in the Italian Alps which is so steep, that the surrounding mountains cut off direct sunlight during the winter. Between 11 November and 2 February the sun disappears completely.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/05/lightbeam/</link>
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		<title>Rabbit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the hills near the village of Artesina (Piemont, Italy) lies this vast pink rabbit. Happy you feel as you climb up along its ears, almost falling into its cavernous mouth, to the belly-summit and look out over the pink woolen landscape of the rabbitÌs body. Apparently it took a women’s knitting club in Vienna almost 5 years to knit the rabbit’s body.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/03/rabbit/</link>
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		<title>Hole in the Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Holland is between two planes:
Holland is on the ground and under a leaking roof of clouds.
Holland has a lowered ceiling.
I make a hole in this roof and let the sun shine in -
the most beautiful spot in Holland.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/03/hole-in-the-cloud/</link>
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		<title>Intersection Vortex</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Four trucks drive towards an intersection at top speed at exactly the same time; perfectly choreographed to miss eachother only by inches. The trucks don't crash into eachother, nor do they hit the breaks. Instead they cross eachother's paths so closely and with such speed that a vacuum briefly exists in their midst: a small vortex in between the four trucks.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.toplolly.com/2008/03/intersection-vortex/</link>
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