Monument to the Third International

The Monument to the Third International, often called Tatlin's Tower, was designed by Russian artist Vladimir Tatlin. He conceived the unbuilt architectural design in 1919 and 1920. The project was intended to serve as the headquarters of the Communist International.

Tatlin's Tower was designed to stand at roughly 400 meters (about 1,300 feet) tall. If it had been built, this immense double helix structure would have dwarfed the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It was never constructed due to lack of funding and the structural impracticalities of its ambitious design.

It was designed to serve as the headquarters of the Communist International (the Third International) in Petrograd. The interior of the massive double helix was planned to house various government and media facilities. These rotating glass cores were intended to host meetings, broadcasts, and propaganda dissemination.

Although the monumental structure was never built, scaled-down replicas and models of Tatlin's Tower exist in major museums. You can view these reconstructions at institutions like the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris. These models give viewers a physical sense of the ambitious Constructivist design.