Thomas Schütte

Model for a Hotel 2007, 2007 to 2009 Unveiled in November 2007, Schütte's work was an enlarged architectural model of a 21-story hotel, its angled, irregular floors made in red, yellow and blue panels. It was the plinth's first boldly colored sculpture, and it swapped the commemorative statue for a proposal: not a memory of the past but a building that might yet be built. Next to Barry's stone and the bronze generals it looked deliberately provisional, which suited a square whose fourth corner had been undecided since 1841.