Local projects include the St Jakob 'experience park', a monumental sports stadium that was enlarged further for Euro 2008.
He soon embarked upon the project that would occupy him for the rest of his career: a large series of monumental figures for a park in Oslo.
The United States House of Representatives voted 349 to 74 to acquire a monumental cross and the park around it from the City of San Diego.
With "Space Program: Mars" the risk is that the project will be seen less as an art installation than as a monumental space-nerd amusement park, a view that Mr. Sachs said would greatly underestimate his ambitions.
The monumental task of opening the park, which included planting 2.4 million shrubs, stocking 7,000 pieces of merchandise and training 10,000 employees, has had its challenges.
There is never a bad time to visit Storm King Art Center, in New Windsor, but autumn provides a particularly dramatic setting for the monumental sculptures that grace the park's 500 acres.
Vigeland was also responsible for the design and architectural outline of the park - a monumental artistic creation with a human message that is well worth seeing.
"It's a monumental building," said Henry J. Stern, former parks commissioner and president of New York Civic Inc., a nonprofit government advocacy organization.
The third-place finisher was Jeff Koons's "Balloon Flower, (Blue)," a monumental sculpture that has been parked outside Christie's Rockefeller Center headquarters for weeks now and that was being sold by Daimler, the German car manufacturer, which had displayed it in front of its Berlin headquarters.
The Old Town grew up in a haphazard fashion in the early years and includes more than 20 pit settlements, whereas the New Town, to the south, begun in 1934 and designed as the cultural and administrative centre, has wide streets, parks, and such monumental buildings as the Miners' Palace of Culture.
