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by Chris R. Morgan Print this article In 2002, Vermont architect Bren Alvarez acquired 11 disused filing cabinets, which she stacked one on top of the other, creating a single 40-foot-plus column of 38 metal drawers. The resulting sculpture was called File Under So. Co., Waiting for …, though it is colloquially referred to as “the world’s tallest file cabinet.” Alvarez’s aim was to ridicule the Southern Connector (“So. Co.”) road project, which remained unbuilt since its 1965 proposal (hence the 38 drawers). The satire was all the more pointed because Alvarez placed the sculpture on the proposed route of the project; nearly 20 years later, the sculpture is now in its own zoning ordinance limbo for relocation 100 feet away.

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