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animu media library’s concrete curves embrace the site’s existing landscape in porto-vecchio
Animu media library by dominique coulon & associes Showing up to float previously mentioned its web site in Porto-Vecchio, Corsica, the Animu Media Library by Dominique Coulon & Associés (a lot more in this article) is designed to maintain the present landscape. The library, constructed in collaboration with Amelia Tavella Architectes (additional right here), is described by concrete curves that circumvent the rocks of the web page, as nicely as its several oak and olive trees. Reminiscent of a big sculpture, the task has neither a exact front nor back again, with its elevations going through in all instructions of the town. A light ramp sales opportunities buyers to…
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How the ‘Queen of Slag’ Is Transforming Industrial Sites
Vintondale Reclamation Park, a 35-acre site in coal country in the vicinity of Pittsburgh, completed in 2002, was pivotal. Why? It was a perfect, multidisciplinary staff of engineers, hydrogeologists, architects, artists, historians and landscape architects. We discovered every thing about acid mine drainage remedy to style a all-natural filtration procedure that dealt with years of air pollution from mine runoff. Excavators resculpted 19th-century beehive ovens utilised to convert coal to coke to make metal. We brought them out from driving those chain-backlink fences and made the science noticeable, wonderful. Now it’s a neighborhood park together with a historic bicycle path. I indicate, increase. It all came alongside one another. Persons…
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These African heritage sites are under threat from rising seas, but there’s still time to save them
(CNN) — On the shores of North Africa, ancient cities have stood for millennia. The columns of Carthage, in modern-day Tunisia, are a reminder of the once bustling Phoenician and Roman port, and along the coast in what’s now Libya, lie the majestic ruins of Sabratha’s Roman amphitheater close — perhaps too close — to the sea. Africa’s iconic natural sites date back even further, such as the ancient coral reef of the Seychelles’ Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean, thought to be around 125,000 years old. But extreme weather events and rising sea levels mean that all three — and around 190 other spectacular heritage sites that line Africa’s…
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Julie Bargmann turns Superfund sites into must-see destinations.
Julie Bargmann, 2021 Oberlander Prize laureate [Photo: ©Barrett Doherty/courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation] Bargmann has specialized in get the job done on overlooked, environmentally challenged, and deeply polluted web-sites, bringing an ethos of recycling, remediation, and restore to destinations other individuals could see as much too much gone. In tasks like the Vintondale Reclamation Park, created on a former coal mine’s dumping floor, and the retrofit of the Philadelphia Navy Lawn into the headquarters of Urban Outfitters, Bargmann turns design and style initiatives into environmental interventions, and vice versa. City Outfitters, Philadelphia Julie Bargmann, landscape architect [Photo: ©Charles A. Birnbaum/courtesy the Cultural Landscape Foundation] Started in 1992, D.I.R.T.—which stands for…



