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�Sign of the Times� by Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber, 2016 Hotel InterContinental Wien Johannesgasse (facade on Lothringerstrasse) Vienna, September 2017 �It is one of the iconic images of the silent film era: In the movie SAFETY LAST! (1923), the distinctive, stoic Harold Lloyd is dangling from the hand of a huge clock on the outside of a skyscraper in New York. He is turning to the viewer for help while the clock face is inevitably torn from its anchorage and slowly tilting forward. His double is currently dangling from a building in Vienna � not quite as high above the canyons of Manhattan as Harold Lloyd, but at least between the 7th and 8th floors of the Hotel InterContinental. His exact remake. As big as the movies. This creative and film-related intervention was conceived by the Viennese artist group Steinbrener/Dempf & Huber, who, in the past, have repeatedly attracted a great deal of attention with their actions in public spaces.� ( Sign of the Times , Viennale)

�Room without a View� by Antony Gormley, 2014 (That thing above The Garden Caf�) Brown Hart Gardens Off Duke Street, Mayfair London, September 2016 �Gormley has created his suite � its called Room � for the Beaumont, a hotel due to open this autumn in Brown Hart Gardens. The hotel is not exactly a Travelodge. It is a swanky place that raises the question of how an artist can, in good faith, make a work that teases the general public with its shiny exterior while in reality be a delight for the rich guests this Mayfair establishment is hoping to attract. No one would tell me the cost for a night in Gormleys Room, though its said to go for roughly �2,500.� ( Antony Gormleys �2,500 Room without a view , The Guardian)

�Room without a View� by Antony Gormley, 2014 (That thing above The Garden Caf�) Brown Hart Gardens Off Duke Street, Mayfair London, September 2016 �Gormley has created his suite � it's called Room � for the Beaumont, a hotel due to open this autumn in Brown Hart Gardens. The hotel is not exactly a Travelodge. It is a swanky place that raises the question of how an artist can, in good faith, make a work that teases the general public with its shiny exterior while in reality be a delight for the rich guests this Mayfair establishment is hoping to attract. No one would tell me the cost for a night in Gormley's Room, though it's said to go for roughly �2,500.� ( Antony Gormley's �2,500 Room without a view , The Guardian)

H�tel Novotel Paris Tour Eiffel (h�tel Nikko), quai de Grenelle Front de Seine (also known as Beaugrenelle) Quartier de Grenelle, 15th arrondissement Paris, July 2014 �The Front de Seine district is the result of an urban planning project from the 1970s. It includes about 20 towers reaching nearly 100 m of height built all around an elevated esplanade. That esplanade is paved with frescos that can be seen only from the elevated floors of the towers. As opposed to Italie 13, the design of the towers is much more varied. The H�tel Novotel Paris-Tour Eiffel (formerly known as H�tel Nikko), for instance, has red-encircled windows, while the Tour Totem consists of a stack of several glassed-blocks. A newly redesigned shopping centre, the Centre commercial Beaugrenelle has opened in 2013.� (Wikipedia)