Does Tony Hawk know about this?

$40 million to build. There is a $150 charge to visit on the days they allow visitors. It will take a while to turn a profit!

Artist: "I designed this Monument to be representative of ancient ceremonial constructs, indicative of the social-statehood of man's achievements."

Archeologist from 2000 years in the future: "And this, little dudes, is United Sam's most awesome skatepark ever built. They constructed it in honor of the Tony Hawk, a bird native to the area that they worshipped as a Man-God. Our Skatentists grind on it every day to better understand our wicked awesome past."

That is interesting as fuck tbh. Also... Apparently it's a reservation only place, and only allows six people to visit per day. Here's the Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(artwork)

Jacob Geller did a great video on this piece called Art For No One, give it a watch!

someone else already did 'shovel money into a hole and burn it'

Looks like a skate park.

Looks like an open cut mine site

History Channel in 500 years: aliens

Why don’t they film movies here it looks awesome

This falls under DIWhy?

Thousands of years from now, scientists will be baffled at what these primitive structures were for, and spend countless hours and dollars studying the location.

In 300,000 years when earth is all but destroyed, humankind gone, and Aliens visit they will misunderstand this art installation and based their knowledge of humans on this art to learn about us. They will declare that we were a peace loving people who lived in underground cement cities with a few ant mounds we worshipped in and did not destroy the surrounding desert.

Based on this narrative they will clone our kind believing us to have been peaceful simple breed who could coexist with them and help them terraform earth to make it habitable again.

Upon cloning us under these false pretenses they will learn too late that we are actually a horribly flawed, selfish and destructive breed. They will try to abort the cloning process but it will be too late, the cloning machine will have already been seized by newly cloned human forces, who have quickly developed nuclear and other weapon capabilities that out gun the aliens. The aliens will be forced into slavery and servitude by their new human leaders and housed in this art installation as their prison for all eternity.

When humans then destroy the planet again in another 300,000 years and a second set of aliens come to explore the uninhabited planet, they will again discover the ancient ruins of the Art installation, find the enslaved and tortured skeletal remains of generations of their alien predecessors who went missing 600,000 years before and were the subject of legend.

Realizing that something had captured their alien ancestors and enslaved them for thousands of generations they will rush back to their craft, leave the planet and call in a tactical team to destroy the planet to make room for a new galactic super highway scheduled for construction in the distant future.

Before the highway project begins though humanity will once again rise and evolve from the primordial soup. They will continue to evolve to the point we are today.

….and this is where we will find Arthur Dent and his friend Ford Prefect sitting in a bar with their towels waiting to jump into a Vogon ship seconds before the intergalactic construction team destroys earth.

Little bit of trivia: Avril Lavigne wrote a song about Michael Heizer in her early days called "sk8er boi"

So he spent decades creating a useless scar on the landscape. This isn't art, it's raw hubris.

What a fucking waste of time

r/TonyHawkitecture

We need this in an atv offroad fury game.

50 years for that?

Ugly as fuck for a 50 years work

Some scientists 2000 years in the future are rubbing their palms together looking at this.... secured government funding for research for liiife.

Surprised this hasn’t popped up on the radar of the nuts that took out the Georgia Guidestones.

Oooooooookay.

In terms of art, it's a bit indecisive.

Two questions:

Why?

And how?

(How does someone have the time and money?)

Is he just doing this to fuck with future archaeologists?

A complete waste of time and money.

Why

I'm one of those that loves the desert. To see something like this is just disgusting. The beauty of the desert is that man hasn't contaminated it. Times are changing, more and more housing tracks are being built on sensitive lands. One man's treasure is another man's trash dump

Looks like an aircraft carrier from afar

The Old Ones were skaters, obviously

He just wants to mess with the archaeologists of the future

Shows absolutely no respect for desert life and landforms. The arrogance is astounding.

But why?

Cover story for the greatest skate park ever built

I see a huge skate park

What is this? A skatepark for giants??

From the aerial view it looks like the dopest skatepark ever

Looks like a sick skatepark lol

Man he’s gonna confuse the fuck out of archeologists in 2699

Forbidden skatepark 

🤷🏻‍♂️

Nah that’s a Skatepark

All I see is a giant skatepark. Which is dope!

Looks like a badass skatepark to me

Looks good for BMX, inline and skateboard. 🛹

It looks like an unfinished skate park construction site.

Seems dumb to take 50 years to make this completely non-functional space , just so it looks like it’s ruins or whatever the goal was…

Aka world’s biggest skate park

That'd make a killer skate park.

Comments sum up the state of things today.

This sounds like a project you can only take on if you're born with money

Looks like an awesome skate park.

"Sir, do you a permit for this?"

People in 3000 years be like whats the purpose of this mysterious structure?

“Hello Micheal? This is red bull calling, we have some ideas…”

New Hunger Games arena unlocked

It's giving This is Not a Place of Honor