In March 2008 we beyond any doubts hit rock bottom with the Great Pyramid Gala at the Berlin Hebbel Theater, likely to be the most boring event ever staged there – if it weren´t for the musicians performing and Rem Koolhaas introducing the entries into our architecture ideas contest.

The newly extended team failed completely when it came to continuing, even just presenting the project. One half is prepared to sell out the Great Pyramid for just enough money, the other half is being content to have achieved a worldwide press sensation. After one and a half year of intensive work, Jens is burned-out and struggling with a fully-blown clinical depression while Ingo goes through a marriage break-up.

The Great Pyramid book, edited by Ingo Niermann and Jens Thiel, is being published by Sternberg Press in July.

In October the Great Pyramid makes a last major public appearance, when it becomes part of „Updating Germany“, the official German contribution to the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. At this very moment, the project however as well as the supporting association and their key protagonists are non-operating zombies already.

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Image courtesy designshard´s flickr.