Building a mountain in the middle of a city is definitely a more extreme method of revitalizing an urban area by introducing green space. German architect Jakob Tigges' concept design for The Berg is a large-scale project to say the least.
The 35-year old architect has created a 100m high mountain design to be constructed on the site of the recently closed Tempelhof airport in Berlin. The project is also designed to elicit greenspace envy from other Germany cities and towns.
“While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain… Hamburg, as stiff as flat, turns green with envy, rich and once proud Munich starts to feel ashamed of its distant Alp-panorama and planners of the Middle-East, experienced in taking the spell off any kind of architectural utopia, immediately design authentic copies of the iconic Berlin-Mountain,” explains Tigges of his unusual design.
Currently, the campaign to create The Berg has garnered some 3,500 Facebook fans and has received considerable attention in the European media. The project would be the largest human constructed mountain in the world if the project ever comes to fruition.
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written by Kirsten@Nexyoo , November 10, 2009