2024-05-04T03:34:12-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150117085/chicago-architects-launch-parody-campaign-to-build-a-golden-border-wall-for-trump Mackenzie Goldberg 2019-01-15T15:59:00-05:00 >2024-03-15T01:45:58-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/4e/4eae25d393aa06861463739e404150e4.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>The architects behind the<a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149981701/chicago-design-firm-casts-hammy-metaphor-over-trump-tower" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a>&nbsp;<em><a href="https://archinect.com/news/article/149981701/chicago-design-firm-casts-hammy-metaphor-over-trump-tower" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Flying Pigs on Parade</a> </em>project&mdash;which planned to install four golden pig-shaped balloons in front of the infamous Trump Tower Chicago sign&mdash;are back with another anti-Trump parody, this time mocking the President's proposed <a href="https://archinect.com/news/tag/35987/border-wall" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">border wall</a>.&nbsp;</p> <p>New World Projects, the Chicago-based firm known for creating visual commentary on the ridiculous nature of our current political environment, has released renderings and an accompanying <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/a-better-border-wall-for-america" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GoFundMe campaign</a> for a prototype wall that would surround the Mar-a-Lago resort and golf club in Palm Beach, Florida.&nbsp;</p> <p>Mocking Trump's penchant for ambitiously gaudy design, the proposal promises a 30-foot tall, gold finished picket fence on one side, that would be electrified on the other by six new coal plants built along the border. The project's website cynically describes, "the bad guys on the other side can look through and imagine the riches and moral integrity of being American."</p> <figure><p><a href="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a9/a950ef5b755e94b9896cfeeff9653061.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=1028" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a9/a950ef5b755e94b9896cfeeff9653061.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&amp;w=514"></a></p><figcaption>Image courtesy of New World Projects.</figcaption></figure><p>Throughout the hyp...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/149981701/chicago-design-firm-casts-hammy-metaphor-over-trump-tower Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-12-06T19:24:00-05:00 >2016-12-11T23:25:00-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/x7/x71tzf9e483ufiut.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>New World Design Ltd. has shared a hypothetical proposal that would partially obscure the view of the infamous Trump Tower Chicago sign with four giant, gold-colored balloon pigs. [...] the pigs would be tethered to buoys in the Chicago River and provide &ldquo;visual relief to the citizens of Chicago,&rdquo; many of whom are presumably tired of seeing Trump&rsquo;s name everywhere.</p></em><br /><br /><p>More acts of architectural protest:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/features/article/149978362/architects-respond-to-the-aia-s-statement-in-support-of-president-elect-donald-trump" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Architects Respond to the AIA&rsquo;s Statement in Support of President-Elect Donald Trump</a></li><li><a title="Taking a stand against privately-owned public spaces" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/133486545/taking-a-stand-against-privately-owned-public-spaces" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Taking a stand against privately-owned public spaces</a></li><li><a title="Hawaii protesters block construction of giant telescope on sacred mountain Mauna Kea" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/130483588/hawaii-protesters-block-construction-of-giant-telescope-on-sacred-mountain-mauna-kea" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Hawaii protesters block construction of giant telescope on sacred mountain Mauna Kea</a></li><li><a title="Cooper Union graduates stage tuition protest at Commencement ceremony" href="http://archinect.com/news/article/128257230/cooper-union-graduates-stage-tuition-protest-at-commencement-ceremony" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Cooper Union graduates stage tuition protest at Commencement ceremony</a></li></ul>