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Monuments that stand, and the people and groups building the next ones. A reference list, not a list of partners.
18 monuments69 persons84 organizations12 programs38 concepts
| Kind | Notes | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Spike State Monument | Monument | Brigham City, UT · 2026 | A 43-foot, gold-leafed, spike-shaped monument will stand permanently in honor of the thousands of workers who built the railroad. | Source for Golden Spike State Monument (opens in a new tab) |
| Hanuman Statue Texas | Monument | Sugar Land, TX · 2024 | The 90-foot Statue of Union, the tallest statue of Lord Hanuman in North America and the third-tallest statue in the U.S. | Source for Hanuman Statue Texas (opens in a new tab) |
| Las Vegas Sphere | Monument | Paradise, NV · 2023 | A music and entertainment arena, which seats 17,600 people and is known for its immersive video and audio capabilities, which include a 16K resolution wraparound interior LED screen, speakers with beamforming and wave field synthesis technologies, and 4D physical effects. | Source for Las Vegas Sphere (opens in a new tab) |
| Birth of the New World | Monument | Arecibo, PR · 2016 | A colossal statue of Christopher Columbus steering a ship's wheel, originally rejected by U.S. cities. | Source for Birth of the New World (opens in a new tab) |
| Dignity Statue | Monument | Chamberlain, SD · 2016 | A 50-foot stainless steel statue of a Native woman receiving a star quilt, honoring the Lakota and Dakota peoples of South Dakota. | Source for Dignity Statue (opens in a new tab) |
| R-Evolution | Monument | San Francisco, CA · 2015 | Marco Cochrane's 45-foot steel-mesh sculpture of a woman, first shown at Burning Man in 2015 and now at Embarcadero Plaza. | Source for R-Evolution (opens in a new tab) |
| Pegasus and Dragon | Monument | Hallandale Beach, FL · 2014 | A bronze sculpture of Pegasus battling a dragon, part of a racetrack park. | Source for Pegasus and Dragon (opens in a new tab) |
| Svalbard Global Seed Vault | Monument | Longyearbyen, Norway · 2008 | A seed bank carved into an Arctic mountainside, safeguarding backup copies of the world's crop seeds against catastrophe. | Source for Svalbard Global Seed Vault (opens in a new tab) |
| Frank Lloyd Wright Spire | Monument | Scottsdale, AZ · 2004 | A aqua blue, 125-foot, steel and glass spire. | Source for Frank Lloyd Wright Spire (opens in a new tab) |
| The Awakening | Monument | National Harbor, MD · 1980 | Seward Johnson's 72-foot aluminum giant emerging from the earth, moved from Washington's Hains Point to National Harbor in 2008. | Source for The Awakening (opens in a new tab) |
| Roden Crater Project | Monument | Flagstaff, AZ · 1979 | James Turrell's celestial monument in Arizona. | Source for Roden Crater Project (opens in a new tab) |
| Gateway Arch | Monument | St. Louis, MO · 1965 | A monument commemorating the westward expansion of the United States. | Source for Gateway Arch (opens in a new tab) |
| Crazy Horse Memorial | Monument | Crazy Horse, SD · 1948 | A mountain carving of the Lakota leader Crazy Horse in the Black Hills, in progress since 1948. | Source for Crazy Horse Memorial (opens in a new tab) |
| Mount Rushmore | Monument | Keystone, SD · 1941 | Carved faces of four U.S. presidents into the granite face of Mount Rushmore. | Source for Mount Rushmore (opens in a new tab) |
| San Jacinto Monument | Monument | La Porte, TX · 1939 | A 567-foot octagonal column honoring the Texas Revolution and independence. | Source for San Jacinto Monument (opens in a new tab) |
| Statue of Liberty | Monument | New York, NY · 1886 | A symbol of freedom and democracy gifted by France to the United States. | Source for Statue of Liberty (opens in a new tab) |
| Washington Monument | Monument | Washington, DC · 1884 | An obelisk built to commemorate George Washington the first President of the United States. | Source for Washington Monument (opens in a new tab) |
| Murugan Statue | Monument | Moncure, NC | A massive 155-foot-tall statue of Lord Murugan (reaching 190 feet total with its 35-foot pedestal) is planned and under development at the Carolina Murugan Temple in Moncure, North Carolina. | Source for Murugan Statue (opens in a new tab) |
| 1000 Year House | Concept | Georgia builder Clay Chapman's structural masonry project, under Hope for Architecture, to build solid brick houses meant to last a thousand years. | Source for 1000 Year House (opens in a new tab) | |
| A New Path For Beauty | Organization | An annual conference and movement organized by the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation, dedicated to restoring beauty and excellence in the arts. A New Path for Beauty convenes artists, architects, musicians, and cultural leaders to push back against what Sir Roger Scruton called the “culture of repudiation.” In essence, it’s an intellectual rally to rebuild the aesthetic values that underlie great art and monuments. | Source for A New Path For Beauty (opens in a new tab) | |
| ABMF | Organization | American Battle Monuments Foundation, the nonprofit partner of the American Battle Monuments Commission, which runs U.S. military cemeteries and memorials overseas. | Source for ABMF (opens in a new tab) | |
| AION | Organization | Austin-based startup planning the City of Axiom, a self-sustaining new city combining technology, nature and sustainable living. | Source for AION (opens in a new tab) | |
| Alexander Adams | Person | British artist, critic and poet whose writing makes the case for new figurative monuments and the classical tradition. | Source for Alexander Adams (opens in a new tab) | |
| Alexander Stoddart | Person | Scotland | Paisley-based neoclassical sculptor whose bronzes include David Hume and Adam Smith on Edinburgh's Royal Mile and a 14-foot Alberti at Notre Dame. | Source for Alexander Stoddart (opens in a new tab) |
| America's Tallest Flag | Concept | America250 plan for the world's largest U.S. flag, about 776 by 1,492 feet, longer than the Empire State Building is tall, for the 2026 semiquincentennial. | Source for America's Tallest Flag (opens in a new tab) | |
| American Colossus Foundation | Organization | Nonprofit founded by Ross Calvin proposing a 450-foot bronze statue of Prometheus and a technology museum on Alcatraz Island. | Source for American Colossus Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| American Dream Mall Statue | Concept | East Rutherford, NJ | The Giant, a planned 54-foot humanoid statue with moving head and arms and an LED skin, billed as the world's tallest moving statue. | Source for American Dream Mall Statue (opens in a new tab) |
| Andrew Wilson Smith | Person | Classical sculptor and stone carver who carved the Twelve Apostles portal at Clear Creek Abbey, Oklahoma. | Source for Andrew Wilson Smith (opens in a new tab) | |
| Anthony Constantino | Person | Sticker Mule CEO who funded the seven-foot bronze Defiance Monument of Donald Trump, unveiled at Trump's West Palm Beach golf club in 2025. | Source for Anthony Constantino (opens in a new tab) | |
| Arcosanti | Concept | Arizona | Experimental desert town in Arizona begun by architect Paolo Soleri in 1970 to test arcology, a fusion of architecture and ecology. | Source for Arcosanti (opens in a new tab) |
| Arena Magazine | Organization | A relatively new magazine focusing on technology, defense, and culture from a heterodox perspective. Arena often highlights figures building bold projects (in military tech, crypto, etc.), effectively documenting the people creating “monumental” change in America’s strategic industries and cultural landscape. | Source for Arena Magazine (opens in a new tab) | |
| Art City (Tucumcari, NM) | Organization | Tucumcari, NM | A 40-acre immersive sculpture park and glamping resort on historic Route 66 in Tucumcari. Branded Art City, it features 13 large-scale outdoor sculptures (many sourced from Burning Man) and on-site communal lodging, aiming to spark cultural tourism and community revitalization. | Source for Art City (Tucumcari, NM) (opens in a new tab) |
| Art Renewal Center | Organization | Nonprofit promoting realist art that runs the annual ARC Salon and approves traditional ateliers teaching classical drawing and painting. | Source for Art Renewal Center (opens in a new tab) | |
| ArtStation | Organization | Online portfolio platform, owned by Epic Games, where artists showcase game, film, illustration and concept art. | Source for ArtStation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Artworks Foundry | Organization | Berkeley, California fine art foundry, operating since 1976, that casts, fabricates and restores bronze sculptures and monuments. | Source for Artworks Foundry (opens in a new tab) | |
| Atelier de Sculpture Missor | Organization | French figurative sculpture atelier and foundry founded in 2021, known for monumental bronzes including a gilded equestrian Joan of Arc in Nice. | Source for Atelier de Sculpture Missor (opens in a new tab) | |
| Austantinople | Concept | Austantinople was conceived by crypto entrepreneurs as a semi-autonomous city or zone where cryptocurrency and Web3 technologies shape governance and economy. One founder, Ben Woosley, has been working to acquire land (500+ acres) and rally the community for it. Though in early stages, it represents the frontier spirit of actually founding new cities. | ||
| Austin Tunnell | Person | Oklahoma City, OK | Founder of Building Culture, an Oklahoma City design-build developer specializing in structural masonry and walkable mixed-use infill. | Source for Austin Tunnell (opens in a new tab) |
| Beacon of Progress | Concept | Chicago, IL | Despradelle 1900 - 1500 ft obelisk | |
| Beaux-Arts Academy | Program | Classical atelier in Provo, Utah, offering a four-year program in drawing, painting, sculpture and architecture. | Source for Beaux-Arts Academy (opens in a new tab) | |
| Beaux-Arts Atelier | Organization | Garrison, New York nonprofit advocating beautiful classical design for major public projects, including a rebuilt Penn Station. | Source for Beaux-Arts Atelier (opens in a new tab) | |
| Belmont, Arizona | Concept | Arizona · Bill Gates | A proposed 24,000-acre high-tech “smart city” west of Phoenix, backed by an $80 million investment from Bill Gates’s Cascade Investment. Belmont is envisioned to include ~80,000 homes with cutting-edge infrastructure (autonomous vehicles, high-speed networks) in a master-planned community. | |
| Bennet | Organization | Near Salt Lake City, UT | Planned 1,000-acre new town near Salt Lake City pairing 4.7 million square feet of advanced manufacturing with 3,000-plus homes. | Source for Bennet (opens in a new tab) |
| Branch Art Collective | Organization | Austin, TX | Austin art consultancy that sources and commissions large-scale sculpture for developers and architects, from artist selection to installation. | Source for Branch Art Collective (opens in a new tab) |
| Brightline | Organization | Florida | A private high-speed rail service and infrastructure project. Brightline operates modern passenger trains in Florida (Miami–Orlando) – the first private intercity rail in the U.S. in decades – and is expanding Brightline West (Vegas to SoCal). By building rail stations and lines without public funding, Brightline demonstrates a monumental infrastructure achievement in an era of little new transit, reviving the grand tradition of American railroad building. | Source for Brightline (opens in a new tab) |
| Build_ (Build Cities) | Organization | A community and accelerator program supporting founders who are literally trying to “build” new cities or physical communities. Build_ (formerly Build Cities) provides funding, mentorship, and a network to projects ranging from charter cities and co-living compounds to urban tech startups. | Source for Build_ (Build Cities) (opens in a new tab) | |
| Building Culture | Organization | Building Culture (led by architect Austin Sartorius) designs walkable neighborhoods, tailored traditional homes, and civic buildings with “timeless beauty” and fine craftsmanship. They integrate master-planning, architecture, and even masonry construction under one roof to create durable, heritage-quality buildings – essentially trying to restore the culture of building places that uplift and endure (as many great monuments do). | Source for Building Culture (opens in a new tab) | |
| Burning Flipside | Organization | A regional spin-off of Burning Man held near Austin, Texas. Burning Flipside gathers a few thousand people on Memorial Day weekend to form a temporary city governed by the same principles of radical self-expression and self-reliance. Like Burning Man, it features large collaborative art installations and culminates in the burning of an effigy. It’s part of the network of local “burns” that carry on the monument-building, community-making spirit on a smaller scale across America. | Source for Burning Flipside (opens in a new tab) | |
| Burning Man | Organization | Nevada | The famous annual arts festival in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert where participants create a temporary city filled with monumental art. Burning Man has become a cultural phenomenon showing how ephemeral, participatory monuments (and an improvised city) can foster community and creativity in the American desert. | Source for Burning Man (opens in a new tab) |
| California Forever | Organization | Northern California · Flannery Associates | The company behind a proposed new city in Solano County, California, on ~50,000 acres between San Francisco and Sacramento. In 2023 they unveiled plans for a sustainable, walkable city for possibly hundreds of thousands of residents– a modern company town style project to address the Bay Area’s housing and offer a “new city” from scratch. | Source for California Forever (opens in a new tab) |
| Canvas.Build | Organization | Canvas makes an autonomous robot (the Canvas 1200 series) that can mud, tape, and sand drywall automatically. By automating one of the most labor-intensive interior construction tasks, Canvas frees human workers for higher-skill work and speeds up project timelines – contributing to faster completion of buildings (which could include the interior of monumental civic projects). | Source for Canvas.Build (opens in a new tab) | |
| Charles BrewerFounder | Person | MindSpring founder turned town builder, developer of Glenwood Park in Atlanta and Las Catalinas, a walkable beach town in Costa Rica. | Source for Charles Brewer (opens in a new tab) | |
| Charlie SonghurstFounder | Person | Investor and former head of corporate strategy at Microsoft who compiled a list of people building new towns and cities with Chris Barber. | Source for Charlie Songhurst (opens in a new tab) | |
| Chas Fagan | Person | Sculptor and painter whose statues include Ronald Reagan in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda and Billy Graham in National Statuary Hall. | Source for Chas Fagan (opens in a new tab) | |
| Chief Henry Standing Bear & Korczak ZiolkowskiFounder | Person | Crazy Horse Memorial | Lakota chief and sculptor who launched the Crazy Horse Memorial, a mountain carving in South Dakota's Black Hills begun in 1948. | Source for Chief Henry Standing Bear & Korczak Ziolkowski (opens in a new tab) |
| Christ the King Statue | Concept | Utah | 300 foot tall statue of Jesus Christ | Source for Christ the King Statue (opens in a new tab) |
| Christopher Alles | Person | Figurative and sacred sculptor in Poughkeepsie, New York, honored for sculpture on the baldacchino of Manhattan's Church of St. Michael. | Source for Christopher Alles (opens in a new tab) | |
| City of Telosa | Concept | A planned utopian city, Telosa would cover ~150,000 acres and eventually house 5 million people with a focus on sustainability and egalitarianism. It’s envisioned as a 15-minute city with no fossil-fuel cars and anchored by an iconic “Equitism Tower” skyscraper. | Source for City of Telosa (opens in a new tab) | |
| Citymakers Collective | Organization | Educational nonprofit teaching students and young professionals traditional urbanism, architecture and planning through summer studios and workshops. | Source for Citymakers Collective (opens in a new tab) | |
| Classic Planning Institute (CPI) | Program | Washington, DC | A consultancy and educational academy founded by Dr. Nir Buras, dedicated to “classic planning” and traditional urban design. CPI offers training certificates in classical architecture & planning and advises cities on human-scaled, beautiful urbanism. It frames city-building as a science-based practice marrying historic wisdom with modern needs. | Source for Classic Planning Institute (CPI) (opens in a new tab) |
| Cody Swanson | Person | American sacred sculptor based in Florence, Italy, and co-founder of the Sacred Art School of Florence, carving figures for churches in Europe and the US. | Source for Cody Swanson (opens in a new tab) | |
| Colossal Carbon | Concept | Concept floated by architect Martin Prince-Parrott for robot-carved limestone sculptures of native British animals that absorb carbon and air pollution. | Source for Colossal Carbon (opens in a new tab) | |
| Colossus of Justice | Concept | Proposed colossal Lady Justice statue on Alcatraz Island, a Pacific counterpart to the Statue of Liberty, first suggested in 1965. | Source for Colossus of Justice (opens in a new tab) | |
| Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat | Organization | Chicago-based nonprofit that researches tall buildings and sets the official criteria for measuring and ranking skyscraper heights. | Source for Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (opens in a new tab) | |
| Culdesac | Organization | Tempe, AZ | Flagship project in Tempe, AZ, the first entirely car-free apartment community in the U.S. – designed around walkability, biking, transit and local businesses instead ofprivate cars. It’s reimagining urban design to prioritize public space and community over parking. | Source for Culdesac (opens in a new tab) |
| Dale Lamphere | Person | Dignity statue - top American sculptor | ||
| Damian Chávez | Person | Los Angeles figurative painter whose portraits draw on Art Deco and Art Nouveau design. | Source for Damian Chávez (opens in a new tab) | |
| Danny Hillis & Stewart BrandFounder | Person | Long Now Foundation | Inventor Danny Hillis and Whole Earth Catalog creator Stewart Brand, co-founders of the Long Now Foundation and its 10,000-Year Clock. | Source for Danny Hillis & Stewart Brand (opens in a new tab) |
| David RubensteinPatron | Person | Co-founder of Carlyle Group and famed “patriotic philanthropist” who has donated tens of millions to restore U.S. monuments and historic sites. | ||
| Desert X | Organization | Biennial exhibition of large-scale, site-specific outdoor art across California's Coachella Valley, founded 2017, with an edition in AlUla, Saudi Arabia. | Source for Desert X (opens in a new tab) | |
| Donald TrumpPatron | Person | Real estate developer and 45th U.S. President. In office he championed classical architecture and proposed a “National Garden of American Heroes” featuring 250 statues of historical figures. | ||
| Dory Fund | Program | Foundation funded by Eric Steinberger that gives $10K–$250K grants to early-stage nonprofits working to keep life meaningful as AI automates work. | Source for Dory Fund (opens in a new tab) | |
| Dustin YellinFounder | Person | The Bridge | Brooklyn artist and Pioneer Works founder proposing The Bridge, an oil supertanker stood upright in a harbor as a monument to the end of fossil fuels. | Source for Dustin Yellin (opens in a new tab) |
| Edge City | Organization | A “society incubator” organizing month-long pop-up village communities. Edge City brings together hundreds of innovators to live/work in temporary villages, exploring how to build more flourishing, human-centric communities. | Source for Edge City (opens in a new tab) | |
| Elad GilFounder | Person | Monumental | Tech investor and entrepreneur, founder of Color Health, who started Monumental to build large, inspiring monuments and public art. | Source for Elad Gil (opens in a new tab) |
| Elon MuskPatron | Person | Commissioned the 30ft 'Fork in the Road' created by Burning Man artist Hunter Leggitt, located in Palo Alto. Creates other monumental works. | ||
| ElonRWA | Organization | Memecoin billed as the first real-world asset memecoin, tied to the viral 'Elon I drew you' sketch and a 9-foot bust of it. | Source for ElonRWA (opens in a new tab) | |
| Emergent Ventures | Program | Tyler Cowen's fast grant and fellowship program at the Mercatus Center, backing ambitious people and ideas with no strings attached. | Source for Emergent Ventures (opens in a new tab) | |
| Esmeralda | Concept | California | A walkable village built north of San Francisco, for families & friends building a bright future. | Source for Esmeralda (opens in a new tab) |
| Estudio Urbano | Organization | Guatemala City firm founded in 2001 by Pedro Godoy and María Sánchez, practicing traditional architecture, urbanism and design. | Source for Estudio Urbano (opens in a new tab) | |
| Fastbrick Robotics | Organization | Australia | Organization behind the cutting-edge bricklaying robot Hadrian that can autonomously lay bricks or blocks with extreme speed and precision – at about 200–300 blocks per hour, with next-gen models targeting 500/hour. It uses a long robotic arm and 3D CAD-guided system to build walls from a single site setup. Hadrian signals a revolution in construction: entire house walls can be erected in a day. | Source for Fastbrick Robotics (opens in a new tab) |
| Fen De VilliersFounder | Person | Scottish-born, Antwerp-based sculptor working in bronze and stone, developing a public monument of The Sower for Greenville, South Carolina. | Source for Fen De Villiers (opens in a new tab) | |
| Ferro | Person | Commentator on interwar art and part of the team behind The Exhibition, a London show of traditionalist artists. | Source for Ferro (opens in a new tab) | |
| Forma (Solana Network State) | Organization | Solana Network | Solana-ecosystem company that hosts pop-up villages for founders and develops crypto-friendly economic zones in partnership with governments. | Source for Forma (Solana Network State) (opens in a new tab) |
| Foster + Partners | Organization | Norman Foster's global architecture practice, whose 270 Park Avenue tower for JPMorgan Chase revives the Art Deco skyscraper. | Source for Foster + Partners (opens in a new tab) | |
| Fredd Kustom | Person | France | French retro-futurist sculptor and decorator making Art Deco automotive sculptures inspired by 1940s and '50s design, often with a touch of humor. | Source for Fredd Kustom (opens in a new tab) |
| Freedom Sculpture | Concept | Zenos Frudakis's 20-foot bronze relief in Philadelphia showing a figure struggling out of a wall into freedom, dedicated in 2001. | Source for Freedom Sculpture (opens in a new tab) | |
| Freedom in the Arts | Organization | A UK-based organization (founded 2023 by choreographer Rosie Kay and ex-Arts Council England officer Denise Fahmy) defending freedom of expression in the arts. It offers support to artists facing ideological pressures and advocates for open dialogue and artistic risk-taking. In an ecosystem context, it’s about safeguarding the creative freedom necessary to produce bold, challenging art – the kind of art that might become tomorrow’s cultural monument. | Source for Freedom in the Arts (opens in a new tab) | |
| Fritz JohnsonFounder | Person | Loving County, TX | Creator building a new city from scratch in West Texas, pitched as an "American Dubai." | Source for Fritz Johnson (opens in a new tab) |
| Frontier Foundation | Organization | The Frontier Foundation is advancing plans for new special economic zone cities on federal land – an idea touted by President Trump to “reopen the frontier” and build 10 new cities from scratch. The foundation focuses on frameworks for charter cities with streamlined regulations to spur innovation and industry (e.g. nuclear-powered high-tech hubs). It’s effectively trying to lay the legal groundwork for America’s next wave of new cities and big infrastructure projects. | Source for Frontier Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Gabriel Farrugia | Person | Maltese jeweler and metalwork artist chosen to craft the Papal Crown Project's tiara, a gift from American Catholics to Pope Leo XIV. | Source for Gabriel Farrugia (opens in a new tab) | |
| Geoship | Organization | Company building geodesic dome homes from bioceramic material designed to be non-toxic, fire-resistant and long-lasting. | Source for Geoship (opens in a new tab) | |
| Gitcoin Grants | Program | Distributed over $50m to early stage builders championing projects across DeFi, climate, open source and beyond. | Source for Gitcoin Grants (opens in a new tab) | |
| Glenstone | Organization | Where art, architecture, and nature converge. | Source for Glenstone (opens in a new tab) | |
| Gondor Industries | Organization | United Kingdom | Robotic stone masonry company founded by Arka Serezh | Source for Gondor Industries (opens in a new tab) |
| Grand Central Atelier | Program | New York school founded by painter Jacob Collins, offering full-time classical training in drawing, painting and sculpture. | Source for Grand Central Atelier (opens in a new tab) | |
| Harlan CrowPatron | Person | Dallas real estate investor and collector of historical artifacts. He’s notable for his historical library and private garden of statues of fallen dictators (“Garden of Evil”). | ||
| Henry FaarupFounder | Person | Cofounder and CEO of Ciudad Porta Norte, a walkable new town under development in Panama City, Panama. | Source for Henry Faarup (opens in a new tab) | |
| Henry Markram | Person | Neuroscientist who founded the Blue Brain Project, an effort to digitally reconstruct the mammalian brain. | Source for Henry Markram (opens in a new tab) | |
| Hero Village NYC | Concept | Brooklyn, NY | A proposed housing development, repurposing federally-owned land of an underused Brooklyn airport to build 20,000 family-sized, affordable homes. | Source for Hero Village NYC (opens in a new tab) |
| Hindu Temple Complex | Concept | Moncure, NC | Carolina Murugan Temple's campus of over 100 acres near the Deep River, planned with a 155-foot statue of Lord Murugan, reportedly the world's tallest. | Source for Hindu Temple Complex (opens in a new tab) |
| IM 1776 | Organization | Online magazine and print journal of culture and ideas that published Nick Allen's Frontier Cities proposal for new industry-focused American cities. | Source for IM 1776 (opens in a new tab) | |
| INTBAU | Organization | United States | U.S. chapter of the International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism, promoting traditional building and placemaking. | Source for INTBAU (opens in a new tab) |
| Iraq War Monument | Concept | Campaign to honor Americans who served in Iraq in 1991, 2003–2011 and since 2014, especially those who died. | Source for Iraq War Monument (opens in a new tab) | |
| Isla de L.O.B.O.S. | Organization | DAO-backed project planning a decentralized, sustainable community on 1,250 hectares at Isla de Lobos, Río Negro, Uruguay. | Source for Isla de L.O.B.O.S. (opens in a new tab) | |
| Jacob Collins | Person | New York, NY | Realist painter and leader of the classical art revival who founded Grand Central Atelier, Water Street Atelier and the Hudson River Fellowship. | Source for Jacob Collins (opens in a new tab) |
| James DolanFounder | Person | Sphere Entertainment Co. | Executive chairman of Sphere Entertainment, builder of the Las Vegas Sphere, and head of Madison Square Garden Sports and Entertainment. | Source for James Dolan (opens in a new tab) |
| Jeff BezosPatron | Person | Patron of the 10,000-year ticking clock monument 'Clock of the Long Now'. Major patron of American institutions, e.g. donated $200 million to the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum. | ||
| Joe LonsdalePatron | Person | Tech entrepreneur and investor; co-founder of Palantir and advisor to the National Monuments Foundation (on its advisory board), reflecting his interest in American heritage projects. | ||
| John A. PaulsonPatron | Person | Hedge fund manager who donated $100 million to the Central Park Conservancy, boosting endowment for restorations. Paulson’s funding helps maintain Central Park’s many historic monuments and landscapes for future generations. | ||
| Keene Group | Organization | Greenville, South Carolina developer of luxury townhomes with limestone and brick facades, including The McDaniel and Biltmore Walk. | Source for Keene Group (opens in a new tab) | |
| Ken GriffinPatron | Person | Hedge fund billionaire (Citadel CEO) and major cultural philanthropist. He has given to art institutions and public projects in cities like Chicago and NYC – effectively funding modern civic “monuments” (buildings, museums, parks). | ||
| Las Catalinas | Concept | Car-free, walkable beach town on Costa Rica's Guanacaste coast, founded in 2006 on New Urbanist principles with a 1,000-acre forest reserve. | Source for Las Catalinas (opens in a new tab) | |
| Lawrence Noble | Person | Figurative sculptor and National Sculpture Society Fellow known for the California Firefighters' Memorial in Sacramento and the Yoda Fountain at the Presidio. | Source for Lawrence Noble (opens in a new tab) | |
| Lessons of the Florentine Masters | Organization | Program founded in 2015 by Philadelphia liturgical artist Anthony Visco, teaching sacred art through intensive study of Florentine Renaissance masterworks. | Source for Lessons of the Florentine Masters (opens in a new tab) | |
| Lightfield Lab | Organization | San Jose company developing SolidLight holographic displays that project 3D objects viewable without headsets or glasses. | ||
| Long Now Foundation | Organization | San Francisco nonprofit founded in 1996 to foster long-term thinking, building a 10,000-year clock inside a West Texas mountain. | Source for Long Now Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Luke HollisFounder | Person | Researcher and 3D-capture specialist who founded Mused, a platform publishing digital exhibitions of museums and heritage sites. | Source for Luke Hollis (opens in a new tab) | |
| Lundeen Sculpture | Organization | Loveland, CO | Family-run bronze studio in Loveland, Colorado, whose works include the raised-fist Trump statue at Trump International Golf Club. | Source for Lundeen Sculpture (opens in a new tab) |
| Lyme Academy | Program | Art school in Old Lyme, Connecticut, teaching classical figurative drawing, painting and sculpture through a rigorous, atelier-style curriculum. | Source for Lyme Academy (opens in a new tab) | |
| Marc AndreessenPatron | Person | Renown venture capitalist known for advocating big, forward-looking projects in infrastructure and architecture. | ||
| Marc BenioffPatron | Person | Tech billionaire (Salesforce founder) and civic leader in San Francisco. He’s funded hospitals and public causes; notably, Salesforce Tower is now San Francisco’s tallest skyscraper at 1,070 ft, a new icon on the skyline. | ||
| Marc LorePatron | Person | E-commerce billionaire (Jet.com founder) now focused on building a utopian new city called Telosa, a 15-minute city design with a towering central “Equitism Tower”– a monumental project in urban development. | ||
| Marco Cochrane | Person | San Francisco, CA | Bay Area sculptor of the Bliss Project, towering steel-mesh female figures including Bliss Dance, Truth Is Beauty and R-Evolution, first shown at Burning Man. | Source for Marco Cochrane (opens in a new tab) |
| Mathias Corvinus Collegium | Organization | A major Hungarian educational and intellectual center that promotes conservative and classical values. MCC runs leadership programs for students, funds scholarly research, and hosts high-profile conferences. MCC is generously backed by the Hungarian government and private donors, effectively acting as a patron of Western classical education and arts in Central Europe. By nurturing young talent with an appreciation for tradition and beauty, MCC contributes to the long-term human capital behind cultural and civic “monument” projects globally. | Source for Mathias Corvinus Collegium (opens in a new tab) | |
| Matteson Capital | Organization | Newport Beach real estate developer led by Scot Matteson, behind Oklahoma City's Boardwalk at Bricktown and its planned supertall Legends Tower. | Source for Matteson Capital (opens in a new tab) | |
| Matthew the Stoat | Person | Art Deco sketc artists and sculptor | ||
| Maverick MovesFounder | Person | Pseudonymous filmmaker and writer proposing a bronze colossus of seasteader Samuele Landi for the Saya de Malha Bank in the Indian Ocean. | Source for Maverick Moves (opens in a new tab) | |
| Mellon Foundation | Program | The largest US funder of the arts and humanities, whose $250 million Monuments Project backs new commemorative spaces and monuments. | Source for Mellon Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Micah SpringutFounder | Person | Monumental Labs | Stone carver and software entrepreneur who founded Monumental Labs, which uses AI-driven robots to carve stone sculpture and architecture. | Source for Micah Springut (opens in a new tab) |
| Mike Willcox | Person | Self-taught Florida Keys painter and illustrator whose symbolic, mystical work draws on Art Deco. | Source for Mike Willcox (opens in a new tab) | |
| Mitchell RalesPatron | Person | Industrialist (Danaher co-founder) and art patron. Rales and his wife established Glenstone, a private museum in Maryland displaying monumental contemporary sculptures amid nature. | ||
| Mo MahmoodFounder | Person | More Monuments | Founder of More Monuments, the nonprofit building a Colossus of George Washington and other new monumental public art in America. | Source for Mo Mahmood (opens in a new tab) |
| Montanoso | Organization | A decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) project building a traditional village in Texas Hill Country. It’s an experiment in self-governing village life (“archipelago of self-governing collectives”) blending blockchain governance with Old World town design. | Source for Montanoso (opens in a new tab) | |
| Monument Lab | Organization | Philadelphia public art and history studio whose Mellon-funded National Monument Audit analyzed nearly 50,000 U.S. monuments. | Source for Monument Lab (opens in a new tab) | |
| Monumental Labs | Organization | Company using AI-guided robotic arms and human carvers to produce stone sculpture and architectural ornament at scale. | Source for Monumental Labs (opens in a new tab) | |
| Monumental.Co | Organization | Amsterdam startup, founded in 2021 by Salar al Khafaji and Sebastiaan Visser, whose AI-driven robots lay bricks for homes, schools and canal walls. | Source for Monumental.Co (opens in a new tab) | |
| Monuments Across Dixie | Organization | Alabama-based group offering low-cost new historical monuments and markers across the South, focused on Southern and Civil War history. | Source for Monuments Across Dixie (opens in a new tab) | |
| Mount Sharon | Concept | Initiative, still in stealth, to create a new Mount Rushmore; no public details yet. | ||
| Mused | Concept | Luke Hollis's platform for 3D-captured digital exhibitions of museums and historic sites, since expanded into spatial simulation. | Source for Mused (opens in a new tab) | |
| NH Free State Project | Organization | New Hampshire | A libertarian movement to concentrate liberty activists in New Hampshire to influence state policy and build a freedom-oriented community. Their aim is to make NH a living enclave of personal and economic freedom – in effect, a social experiment in self-governance (some have dubbed it a 21st-century “Galt’s Gulch”). | Source for NH Free State Project (opens in a new tab) |
| Nat FriedmanPatron | Person | Software entrepreneur (former GitHub CEO) who funds ambitious cultural/tech projects–e.g. the $1M+ Vesuvius Challenge to read ancient Herculaneum scrolls. | ||
| National Civic Art Society | Organization | Washington, DC | A Washington, DC nonprofit that promotes classical architecture and art in the public realm. The NCAS campaigns for beauty and tradition in federal buildings and monuments, opposing modernist designs. It played a role in pushing for a classical Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial and influenced the Trump administration’s policy favoring classical federal architecture. Essentially, NCAS acts as a guardian of classical aesthetics in American civic projects. | Source for National Civic Art Society (opens in a new tab) |
| National Garden of American Heroes | Concept | 250 life-size statues of American figures | ||
| National Monuments Foundation | Organization | Atlanta nonprofit led by Rodney Mims Cook Jr. that builds classical civic monuments, including the Millennium Gate triumphal arch. | Source for National Monuments Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| National Sculpture Society | Organization | New York, NY | Founded in 1893, the NSS is America’s oldest organization of sculptors. It supports the creation and display of fine sculpture (especially figurative and monumental sculpture). The NSS runs exhibitions, awards (like the Prix de West), and educational programs to keep the art of sculpture thriving. | Source for National Sculpture Society (opens in a new tab) |
| National Society Daughters of the American Revolution | Organization | Lineage society promoting historic preservation, whose chapters erect markers and commissioned the twelve Madonna of the Trail monuments. | Source for National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (opens in a new tab) | |
| New Towns Initiative | Organization | Cambridge, MA · Harvard | The New Towns Initiative at Harvard University researches historical and contemporary new town developments in an international context. It is based at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Through its efforts, the Initiative is working to establish the relevance and and future directions of the New Towns idea in the 21st Century. | Source for New Towns Initiative (opens in a new tab) |
| New Urbanism | Concept | New Urbanism is a planning movement promoting walkable, mixed-use, and human-scaled neighborhoods to counter suburban sprawl. It emphasizes building compact, diverse communities with accessible public spaces, diverse housing types, and reduced car dependence. Key principles include traditional neighborhood design, transit-oriented development, and sustainability. | Source for New Urbanism (opens in a new tab) | |
| Nick Fairplay | Person | Ohio | English-trained master stone carver in Oberlin, Ohio, whose work includes Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral and the Utah State Capitol. | Source for Nick Fairplay (opens in a new tab) |
| O'Shaughnessy Ventures | Program | Jim O'Shaughnessy's family-office investment firm, which also gives $100K and $10K non-dilutive fellowship grants to founders and creators each year. | Source for O'Shaughnessy Ventures (opens in a new tab) | |
| Obelisk Studios | Organization | Secretive art organization formed and funded by conceptual artist SHL0MS, with aims so far only hinted at publicly. | Source for Obelisk Studios (opens in a new tab) | |
| Oceanco Ship Sculpture | Concept | Carved wooden figurehead on the bow of Koru, Jeff Bezos's Oceanco-built sailing superyacht, delivered in 2023. | Source for Oceanco Ship Sculpture (opens in a new tab) | |
| Pablo Penietzsche | Person | San Francisco, CA | San Francisco tech builder who organized and funded the Aaron Swartz Statue Project, a marble bust unveiled at the Internet Archive in 2025. | Source for Pablo Penietzsche (opens in a new tab) |
| Pacifica II Statue Project | Concept | Nonprofit effort to recreate Ralph Stackpole's 81-foot Pacifica, the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition's theme statue, demolished in 1941. | Source for Pacifica II Statue Project (opens in a new tab) | |
| Palmer Luckey | Person | Inventor who founded Oculus VR and co-founded the defense technology company Anduril Industries. | Source for Palmer Luckey (opens in a new tab) | |
| Pangolin Editions | Organization | Sculpture foundry in Stroud, England, founded in 1985, that cast the bronze for Sabin Howard's National WWI Memorial. | Source for Pangolin Editions (opens in a new tab) | |
| Papal Crown Project | Concept | Crowdfunded papal tiara for Pope Leo XIV from American Catholics, organized by Amici Vaticani and made by Maltese jeweler Gabriel Farrugia. | Source for Papal Crown Project (opens in a new tab) | |
| Passage Press | Program | Independent publisher that grew out of the Passage Prize, an online fiction, poetry, nonfiction and visual art competition later collected in anthologies. | ||
| Pneuma Foundation | Program | Florence-based nonprofit supporting emerging figurative artists who work in Classical, Renaissance and Baroque traditions through exhibitions, workshops and studio space. | Source for Pneuma Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Portals Organization | Organization | Global | A global art initiative installing large “Portals” – circular video sculptures linking cities in real time. Portals Organization uses these interactive artworks to dissolve cultural barriers and foster a unified global perspective. Portals have connected cities like Vilnius, Dublin, NYC, etc., allowing passersby to wave to and speak with people in distant places. | Source for Portals Organization (opens in a new tab) |
| Possibilia Magazine | Organization | A literary magazine dedicated to optimistic science fiction. Possibilia publishes short stories, essays, and art that imagine positive futures for humanity. By showcasing hopeful, realistic utopias, it aims to influence culture and innovation – nurturing the imaginative groundwork for the next generation of monumental projects (in space, cities, technology) through storytelling. | Source for Possibilia Magazine (opens in a new tab) | |
| Professor DumpsterFounder | Person | Valentine, TX | Jeff Wilson, ex-professor who lived a year in a converted dumpster, founded housing startups Kasita and Jupe, and is planning an AI city in Valentine, Texas. | Source for Professor Dumpster (opens in a new tab) |
| Project Stargate | Concept | OpenAI, SoftBank, Oracle and MGX joint venture announced by President Trump in 2025, pledging up to $500 billion for US AI infrastructure. | Source for Project Stargate (opens in a new tab) | |
| Proposed Colossal Statue of Washington | Concept | An 1845 New York proposal for a 75-foot statue of George Washington on a 55-foot pedestal, known from a period engraving and never built. | Source for Proposed Colossal Statue of Washington (opens in a new tab) | |
| Proto-Town | Organization | Lockhart, TX | A 1,200-acre hard-tech ranch where startups live, machine, test and manufacture on one site, from autonomous bulldozers to a nuclear research reactor. | Source for Proto-Town (opens in a new tab) |
| PublicArtist.org | Organization | Online platform listing public art calls, with tools for artists to apply and administrators to run selections. | Source for PublicArtist.org (opens in a new tab) | |
| RWC Atelier | Organization | Classical architecture firm in Garrison, New York, led by Richard Cameron, co-founder of the ICAA and advocate for rebuilding Penn Station. | Source for RWC Atelier (opens in a new tab) | |
| Raise Robotics | Organization | A construction robotics startup developing autonomous machines for on-site building tasks. Raise Robotics focuses on vertical construction (e.g. high-rises), with robots that can precisely handle layout, drilling, and fastening of structural connections. By automating labor-intensive, risky tasks, they aim to make building construction faster and safer. | Source for Raise Robotics (opens in a new tab) | |
| Regen Villages | Organization | Stanford spin-off founded by James Ehrlich designing self-sufficient neighborhoods that integrate food, water, energy and waste systems. | Source for Regen Villages (opens in a new tab) | |
| Richard MacDonald | Person | Figurative bronze sculptor of the human body in motion, who made the 26-foot "The Flair" for Atlanta's 1996 Olympics. | Source for Richard MacDonald (opens in a new tab) | |
| Richard Wilson Cameron | Person | Classical architect and co-founder of the ICAA and Atelier & Co., who originated the plan to rebuild McKim's Penn Station. | Source for Richard Wilson Cameron (opens in a new tab) | |
| Ridgerunner | Organization | Developer building clustered "Town and Country" communities around small towns on the Highland Rim of Tennessee and Kentucky. | Source for Ridgerunner (opens in a new tab) | |
| Robert F. SmithPatron | Person | Private equity billionaire (Vista Equity) and philanthropist. He was the largest private donor to the National Museum of African American History & Culture and has funded scholarships and historic preservation. | ||
| Rodney CookFounder | Person | National Monuments Foundation | Atlanta designer who founded the National Monuments Foundation, built Atlanta's Millennium Gate and chairs the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts. | Source for Rodney Cook (opens in a new tab) |
| Roger Scruton | Person | British philosopher of beauty and author of The Aesthetics of Architecture who co-chaired the UK's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. | Source for Roger Scruton (opens in a new tab) | |
| Roman and Williams | Organization | New York, NY | New York design firm founded by Robin Standefer and Stephen Alesch, known for richly crafted interiors including The Met's British Galleries. | Source for Roman and Williams (opens in a new tab) |
| Ross CalvinFounder | Person | American Colossus | Executive director of American Colossus, which proposes a colossal statue of Prometheus and a technology museum on Alcatraz Island. | Source for Ross Calvin (opens in a new tab) |
| SHL0MSFounder | Person | Obelisk Studios | Pseudonymous conceptual digital artist, known for blowing up a Lamborghini for an NFT work, who formed the art organization OBELISK. | Source for SHL0MS (opens in a new tab) |
| Sabin Howard Studio | Organization | Studio of classical figurative sculptor Sabin Howard, creator of A Soldier's Journey at the National WWI Memorial in Washington, DC. | Source for Sabin Howard Studio (opens in a new tab) | |
| Sam Altman | Person | CEO of OpenAI, who posted "build monuments in the desert" on X in January 2025. | Source for Sam Altman (opens in a new tab) | |
| Samuel Wild | Person | Artist posting art studies and art-world commentary as Art Deano. | Source for Samuel Wild (opens in a new tab) | |
| Scot MattesonFounder | Person | Matteson Capital | Real estate developer and founder of Matteson Capital, developing Oklahoma City's planned 1,907-foot Legends Tower, which would be the tallest building in the US. | Source for Scot Matteson (opens in a new tab) |
| Seabrook | Concept | Walkable New Urbanist beach town on the Washington coast, founded in 2004 by Casey and Laura Roloff. | Source for Seabrook (opens in a new tab) | |
| Seasteading Institute | Organization | Nonprofit working to enable floating ocean communities that test new models of governance. | Source for Seasteading Institute (opens in a new tab) | |
| Serenbe | Concept | Walkable community in Chattahoochee Hills, Georgia, south of Atlanta, founded by Steve Nygren around working farms and preserved forest. | Source for Serenbe (opens in a new tab) | |
| Seward Johnson | Person | Sculptor of hyperrealistic bronze figures and monumental works like The Awakening, and founder of Grounds For Sculpture. | Source for Seward Johnson (opens in a new tab) | |
| Shimmy | Person | Author and artist publishing fiction, comics and essays. | Source for Shimmy (opens in a new tab) | |
| Sijbrandij Foundation | Program | San Francisco philanthropy that runs the Big Art Loop, a trail of large public art installations across the city, and a Grand Bahama sculpture residency. | Source for Sijbrandij Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Society of Gilders | Organization | Nonprofit educational organization preserving the traditional art and craft of gilding through workshops, a journal and restoration projects. | Source for Society of Gilders (opens in a new tab) | |
| Solaris | Organization | San Francisco coliving and coworking community founded by Thomas Schulz that clustered tech founders in neighboring apartments; closed January 2025. | Source for Solaris (opens in a new tab) | |
| Sonic Sphere | Concept | New York, NY | A 65-foot spherical concert hall with over 100 speakers, suspended inside The Shed in 2023 and based on a Stockhausen idea. | Source for Sonic Sphere (opens in a new tab) |
| Sphere Entertainment Co. | Organization | James Dolan's entertainment company behind the Sphere, the immersive LED-domed venue in Las Vegas, and MSG Networks. | Source for Sphere Entertainment Co. (opens in a new tab) | |
| Star Vasa | Organization | Space company led by Deep Prasad building satellites and the technology base for self-sustaining settlements on Mars. | Source for Star Vasa (opens in a new tab) | |
| Starbase | Concept | Texas · SpaceX | The name given by Elon Musk to the SpaceX launch site and surrounding area in Boca Chica, Texas. Starbase is essentially a private spaceport city-in-the-making, and a monument itself. | Source for Starbase (opens in a new tab) |
| Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation | Organization | Nonprofit founded in 1982 to restore and preserve the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, and builder of the Statue of Liberty Museum. | Source for Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation (opens in a new tab) | |
| Statue of Responsibility | Concept | Proposed 305-foot monument of one hand lifting another, sculpted by Gary Lee Price, realizing Viktor Frankl's call to pair liberty with responsibility. | Source for Statue of Responsibility (opens in a new tab) | |
| Stephen RossPatron | Person | Billionaire patron and developer (Related Companies chairman) behind Manhattan’s Hudson Yards – the largest private real-estate project in U.S. history. Ross commissioned the “Vessel,” a $200 million climbable sculpture in Hudson Yards’ plaza. | ||
| Steve CohenFounder | Person | Utah · The Statue of Responsibility | Court TV founder and veteran news executive leading the Statue of Responsibility Foundation, which is working to build Viktor Frankl's envisioned West Coast counterpart to the Statue of Liberty. | Source for Steve Cohen (opens in a new tab) |
| Steve KuhnPatron | Person | Austin-based hedge fund manager turned philanthropist; co-founded “Dreamland” in Dripping Springs, TX – a 64-acre complex of art, music, mini-golf and pickleball called a “monument to the American Dream”. | ||
| Steven Whyte | Person | British-American figurative sculptor based in Carmel, California, with more than 80 public bronzes, including San Diego's National Salute to Bob Hope and the Military. | Source for Steven Whyte (opens in a new tab) | |
| Strong Towns | Organization | Nonprofit advocating financially resilient cities and towns built through incremental, bottom-up development rather than large top-down projects. | Source for Strong Towns (opens in a new tab) | |
| Studio Echelman | Organization | Boston studio of artist Janet Echelman, creating monumental suspended fiber-net sculptures over public spaces around the world. | Source for Studio Echelman (opens in a new tab) | |
| Temple Square Statues | Concept | Salt Lake City, UT | Series of 14 new sculptures of Christ's ministry and Latter-day Saint history for Temple Square's redesign, beginning with Michael Hall's First Vision in 2024. | Source for Temple Square Statues (opens in a new tab) |
| Texas Bicentennial Commission | Organization | Texas | State commission coordinating statewide celebrations for the 200th anniversary of Texas independence in 2036. | Source for Texas Bicentennial Commission (opens in a new tab) |
| Texas Lyceum | Organization | Texas | Nonpartisan nonprofit, founded in 1980, developing Texas's next generation of business and civic leaders. | Source for Texas Lyceum (opens in a new tab) |
| The Odessa Spire | Concept | A 110-foot lighted sculpture by Ray King in Odessa, Texas, built from a derelict 1950s shopping center sign and unveiled in 2019. | Source for The Odessa Spire (opens in a new tab) | |
| The Spheres | Concept | Seattle, WA | Three glass-domed conservatories at Amazon's Seattle headquarters, opened in 2018 and housing some 40,000 plants from around the world. | Source for The Spheres (opens in a new tab) |
| Traditional Architecture Group (TAG) | Organization | United Kingdom · Royal Institute of British Architects | A UK-based society (founded 2003) promoting new traditional architecture. TAG has ~400 members within RIBA and advocates for classical design in modern practice. It hosts lectures, awards, and symposia to champion traditional architectural principles in contemporary urbanism. | Source for Traditional Architecture Group (TAG) (opens in a new tab) |
| Trilith | Concept | Walkable town in Fayetteville, Georgia, next to Trilith Studios, planned by Lew Oliver with traditional urbanism and half its land kept green. | Source for Trilith (opens in a new tab) | |
| U.S. Commission of Fine Arts | Organization | U.S. Government | A federal advisory body (est. 1910) that reviews and approves designs for national monuments, memorials, coins, and architecture in D.C. The CFA upholds aesthetic standards for federal civic art and has guided projects from the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to new embassy designs. | Source for U.S. Commission of Fine Arts (opens in a new tab) |
| Ultima Tower Eugene Tssui | Concept | Eugene Tssui's 1991 design for a two-mile-high tower in San Francisco, modeled on termite mounds and meant to house about a million people. | Source for Ultima Tower Eugene Tssui (opens in a new tab) | |
| Universal Robots | Organization | Danish maker of collaborative robot arms, or cobots, based in Odense and owned by Teradyne. | Source for Universal Robots (opens in a new tab) | |
| Urbaneer | Organization | Michigan | Based in Michigan, Urbaneer works with developers to design smaller-footprint homes and communities that “care for the occupant” – integrating wellness technology, aging-in-place features, and intentional design for quality of life. Their projects emphasize natural light, walkability, and durability, aligning with a growing movement to build more human-focused (and beautiful) homes rather than bland subdivisions. | Source for Urbaneer (opens in a new tab) |
| Us Together | Concept | Marco Cochrane's proposed 333-foot sculpture on Alcatraz celebrating human connection, under the tagline "We Belong Together." | Source for Us Together (opens in a new tab) | |
| Vincent GrahamFounder | Person | Town-builder and developer behind I'On in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and other walkable, traditional New Urbanist neighborhoods across the Southeast. | Source for Vincent Graham (opens in a new tab) | |
| Vladan Pejanovic | Person | Figurative artist whose Baroque-rooted drawings appeared in The Exhibition, a London show of traditionalist artists. | Source for Vladan Pejanovic (opens in a new tab) | |
| Walter Pyramid | Concept | Long Beach, CA | 18 story blue pyramid by Fishman | |
| William Paquet | Person | Self-taught Virginia sculptor, formerly a collectibles figure sculptor, now making award-winning bronzes inspired by Dante, Nietzsche, Rodin and Doré. | Source for William Paquet (opens in a new tab) | |
| World Monuments Fund | Organization | New York-based nonprofit, founded in 1965, that works to safeguard endangered cultural heritage sites around the world. | Source for World Monuments Fund (opens in a new tab) | |
| World's Fair Co. | Organization | A company dedicated to bringing back the grand World’s Fair tradition, which hasn’t hosted since 1984. They aim to mount large international expositions showcasing innovation, art, and progress. (The effort is ongoing; details of the next fair bid are in development. | Source for World's Fair Co. (opens in a new tab) |
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