Recycled timber pallets are used as modular building blocks stacked to form seating and visual interest.
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Giant gasholder is reborn as a stunning circular park in London | Inhabitat
Bell Phillips Architects recently completed Gasholder Park, a circular green enclosed inside the skeleton of a historic gasholder. Built as part of the King’s Cross redevelopment, the adaptive reuse project is a “beautiful juxtaposition of old and new.”
via Giant gasholder is reborn as a stunning circular park in London | Inhabitat New York City.
Iconic High Line Park in NYC Opens Final Section To Public | Inhabitat
Chelsea residents and High Line neighbors Joshua David and Robert Hammond founded Friends of The High Line in 1999 with the goal of restoring the elevated, dilapidated train tracks to public use and turning the decaying infrastructure into an urban oasis for the community. Despite a mayor who tried to destroy the High Line (Guiliani), and a complete lack of interest at first from politicians and city officials, Friends of the High Line managed to gradually convince the community and ultimately the powers-that-be that this historic structure needed to be saved and turned into a park, and the first section of the restored park opened in 2009.
Tel Aviv’s Hiriya “trash mountain” transformed into Israel’s “Central Park” : TreeHugger
In 1998, after the government officially closed the landfill, the first challenge was to contain the waste. The slopes and walls of the mountain were stabilized and reinforced using salvaged concrete debris from construction projects. Then the landfill was capped and covered, which allows Ayalon Biogas to collect methane produced by the still rotting garbage, which is used to power a textile factory.
via Tel Aviv’s Hiriya “trash mountain” transformed into Israel’s “Central Park” : TreeHugger.