Walk of Ideas
Sunday, 8th October 2006 by James Turnbull
The 'Walk of Ideas' was an 'art project' throughout Berlin which was put in place of the World Cup earlier this year. The 6 sculptures promoted the best of Germany, and not very subtly provided advertising for the project's two main sponsors.
To start with, parked outside Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, there's a 2.5:1 scale model of an Audi TT. The foam sculpture is called "The Automobile" and was of course designed and built by Audi.
Adidas very kindly provided a gigantic pair of Adidas football boots called ""Innovative Football Boots" to leave lying around on the grass. How kind of them to provide this huge piece of advertising?
I'll post another couple of the sculptures tomorrow.
Thanks: ZoroZ and Me.
They’ve obviously got some pretty big shoes to fill.
😀
(PS: typo: Main sponsors, not man)
What a visually stimulating area.
Are those tombs just to the south? https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=52.513977,13.378716&z=18
Mizo, the blocks you see in the south is the “Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe
you can see people queuing up for the Reichstag over here: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=52.51862,13.376005&z=18
I have heard that there is a giant sculpture of a horses head inside the Reichstag. Was I dreaming this?
Hi, I’ve been in Berlin this summer, right after the world cup, and I saw a few of those sculptures.
Here’s the one in Bebelplatz (where during the Reich books were burned for the first time): https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=52.517076,13.393949&z=19 if you can see the shadow, it’s a stack of books.
This, in Gendarmenmarkt, in front of Konzerthaus, was a bunch of musical notes: https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=52.513898,13.392589&z=19
In front of the berliner Dom there was a giant “E=mc^2”, but it doesn’t show in google maps (bizarre…): https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=52.51903,13.399477&z=19
Very close from there you can see the Fernsehturm with a football “skin” https://www.googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en&ll=52.521059,13.410047&z=17
I checked out Berlin on google earth right after I came back, and the imagery was very old (the Memorial mentioned by Mizo was still under construction), so this must be a very recent update
ciao davide
Thanks david, I was just posting those to a new entry!
I think this is a giant asprin tablet by the Reichstag:
View Placemark
Hey let me show you the footballshoes from another point of view 😉 http://www.endigma.de/blog/serendipity/uploads/013.jpg
Here’s an article on the large Audi TT model which was unveiled last April at Brandenburg Gate in Berlin.
http://www.audiworld.com/news/06/brandenburggate/content.shtml
They’ve moved the car one since then, I was there in September and it wasn’t beside the brandenburg gate…
On my travels i never saw these two, But i saw the rest of them in the other walk of ideas posts…
I have visited my dad in Germany this summer, and I saw those cleats and I’ve went inside of them!…By the way, not very far from those shoes is the tent for the new cirque du solile “Afrika! Afrika!” and Capital Beach (Great place to chill and have a Coke)!!!