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The Sea Organ dissolves the limits between sea and land, preserving a spacious transit zone between both spaces. The wharf is no longer an abrupt barrier protecting but distancing man from the sea. Rather, like a beach, it summons the coming and going of waves. The steps become a grandstand from which to contemplate the sunset while listening to music composed and sung by the sea itself. Project Sea Organ, Zadar, Croatia date 2005 Authors Nikola Bašić participants I. Stamac, V. Androcec, T. Heferer developer Zadar City Council Surface 1,700 m 2 Cost 240,000 m
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The struggle with infinity is a motive of personal and transpersonal history, the existence of an individual and the existence of a town. Horror infiniti requires a great power of self-control. To face infinity means to face the real image of one’s own soul. Architect Nikola Bašic´ created a contemporary space manifesting itself in the unity of physics and metaphysics, aesthetics and ethics. This should presumably be a good measure for the fullness of void. ˇ Željka Corak, poet and art historian.