Designs for the Next Millennium; Antenna design
Reflecting both Eastern and Western traditions, the entry proposed by this design firm transcends the rational. It turns to the ancient Japanese idea of a 'dream pillow' to explore the mysteries of cultural receptivity. In an era that is increasingly driven by the exchange of information, much depends on the ability to distinguish meaning from noise.
The designers propose carving a chaise longue, with pillow, from a granite outcropping in Central Park. HD-Rosetta disks, safely microengraved with data, would be buried inside. The mystical premise is that when people in the future rest their heads on the stone pillow, they will absorb the wisdom of the ages. If, perchance, extrasensory perception should fail, rationality, in the form of the disks, would still be available.
Herbert Muschamp is the architecture critic of The New York Times.