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Making the Impossible Possible
 The dream of flying
The dream of paradise
Book, 16.5 x 23 cm, 136 p., colour, English
€ 35 / 46.60 USD
ISBN-10: 90-810927-1-5
ISBN-13: 978-90-810927-1-5
Press:
 Excerpt from book review:
"Using a non-traditional structure and relying on
their visual arts and design backgrounds,
the authors are able to present a fully realised portrait
of this unique hall, the two functions it has served
and the impact its presence has had on the local and
national psyche in a way that is both informative
and critical."
Andrew Finegold, The Art Book Journal,
Volume 15, Issue 4 (November 2008), p 59-60
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The book documents
a unique accumulation
of superlatives. Light is
shed on two business
strategies attempting
to realise mankind’s pri-
mordial dreams. The scene is the world’s
largest self-supporting
hall in a small village
close to Berlin.

At the end of the 1990s, the firm CargoLifter AG attracted international attention with its vision of constructing the world’s largest heavy-lift airship. By building an architecturally outstanding hangar, the company demonstrated pioneering spirit and gave rise to huge media response. After the enterprise failed, the hall was sold to a consortium of Asian firms that then presented the next superlative. The former hangar was converted into the Tropical Islands Dome, Europe’s largest indoor tropical paradise.

The authors Gerlinde Schuller (The World as Flatland, Amsterdam) and Claudia Weber (artist, New York) compare these two visions on their paths to implementation, while simultaneously putting them in the context of current international events. The documentation is supplemented with text contributions by:
Sam Jacob (FAT Ltd., London)
Dingeman Kuilman (Premsela Design Foundation, Amsterdam)
Jochen Becker (critic and curator, Berlin) and
Prof. Dr. Bernd Kriegesmann (Institute for Applied Innovation Research, Bochum).
First published in Amsterdam, 2006

Concept and Editing
Gerlinde Schuller, Amsterdam
Claudia Weber, New York

Graphic Design
Information Design Studio, Amsterdam
(Gerlinde Schuller, Jacques Borel)
Claudia Weber, New York

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Distribution International
Idea Books, Amsterdam
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idea@ideabooks.nl