construction for what is to be the tallest statue in the world broke ground 36 months ago, and as of now, march 2018, its infrastructure is taking good shape. the monument — 182 meters tall (597 feet) — depicts a strong sardar patel, the first deputy prime minister of india . the design architect responsible for this monumental construction: michael graves architecture & design (MGA&D) the ‘statue of unity’ will stand at sadhu-bet island, about three and a half kilometers south of sardar sarovar dam (in the narmada district of gujarat, india). of course, the island technically isn’t an island at all, yet. as imagined, the soon-to-be-breathtaking statue required tricky engineering, and a complex amount of reinforcement to support such a statue on (what is now) merely a pseudo-island, or, as MGA&D describes it, ‘a rocky outcrop in the middle of the naramada river bed.’ only after the constructio...