The erection of London's Post Office Tower was a big thing when I was 12.
khristopher: There's another Oldenburg drawing of his
Colossal Drainpipe Monument, showing the whole darned thang, but I couldn't find it online.
But it is in the anthropomorphic drawings of objects and the proposals for monuments, begun in the 1960's, that Mr. Oldenburg is seen at the very top of his talent. One of his most beautiful drawings, elegantly colored in diaphanous shades of pale green, is his proposal for the faucet cathedral in Seattle.
More rowdy but equally inventive is his ''Colossal Drainpipe'' monument for Toronto, a piece of pipe supported by a Y column. Done in the mid-1960's, it has spun off several auxiliary drawings, one of them a soft, wimpy version (1966); another a ''Drainpipe -- Dream State'' (1967), which shows a drainpipe morphing into a lively nude as she emerges like a butterfly from the cocoon of the tubing.
Quite a few of his works were built:
http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/lsp.htm