Comments on: Roman Quarry Redesign http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556 Landscape Architecture Works! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:38:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: recreational volcanism – mammoth // building nothing out of something http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556&cpage=1#comment-335 recreational volcanism – mammoth // building nothing out of something Thu, 22 Apr 2010 03:41:18 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556#comment-335 [...] While that series deserves a more careful and serious reading than this flippant post allows, the obvious result of the mental collision of these two reports about Moscow — one fantastic and unbelievable, the other substantiated and historical — is to imagine a Moscow whose many public parks are more Yellowstone or Hawaii Volcanoes National Park than Central Park, which, in turn, leads me to a third recent post elsewhere, Pruned’s entry on flood hunting.  Flood hunting is apparently the practice of “traveling to sites of inundation”, an activity situated somewhere between (natural) disaster tourism and, as Pruned suggests, the occasionally-thrilling itineraries of flood-control-apparatus inspectors, who typically must inspect their bulwarks and levees and dams without the visual aid of surging floodwaters, but might, on occasion, have the opportunity to “gauge how the built environment reacts in the face of total systemic failure”. Dendritic systems of access: the Roman Quarry in St. Margathen, Austria, designed by AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH, and seen at Landezine. [...] [...] While that series deserves a more careful and serious reading than this flippant post allows, the obvious result of the mental collision of these two reports about Moscow — one fantastic and unbelievable, the other substantiated and historical — is to imagine a Moscow whose many public parks are more Yellowstone or Hawaii Volcanoes National Park than Central Park, which, in turn, leads me to a third recent post elsewhere, Pruned’s entry on flood hunting.  Flood hunting is apparently the practice of “traveling to sites of inundation”, an activity situated somewhere between (natural) disaster tourism and, as Pruned suggests, the occasionally-thrilling itineraries of flood-control-apparatus inspectors, who typically must inspect their bulwarks and levees and dams without the visual aid of surging floodwaters, but might, on occasion, have the opportunity to “gauge how the built environment reacts in the face of total systemic failure”. Dendritic systems of access: the Roman Quarry in St. Margathen, Austria, designed by AllesWirdGut Architektur ZT GmbH, and seen at Landezine. [...]

]]> By: Scott Fairley http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556&cpage=1#comment-278 Scott Fairley Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:37:55 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556#comment-278 Brilliant scheme- looks great- sharp and contemporary- but the structure and character of the primary use is still legible. Excellent choice of materials too. The corroded steel finish looks superb. Brilliant scheme- looks great- sharp and contemporary- but the structure and character of the primary use is still legible. Excellent choice of materials too. The corroded steel finish looks superb.

]]> By: Pierre http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556&cpage=1#comment-192 Pierre Sun, 29 Nov 2009 14:59:04 +0000 http://www.landezine.com/?p=1556#comment-192 This project, in some way, reminded me of projects from here; http://www.turistvegprosjektet.com/file_listgroup.asp?strAction=doView&iGroupId=68&mids=15 Great site, btw. This project, in some way, reminded me of projects from here;

http://www.turistvegprosjektet.com/file_listgroup.asp?strAction=doView&iGroupId=68&mids=15

Great site, btw.

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