Panagopoulos presentation - Keele University

11-07-2011
The Duisburg-Nord Landscape Park combines the industrial
cultural heritage, Nature and a Light-show.
What the visitor finds here is a massive industrial wasteland,
measuring 200 hectares, which has been transformed over a
period of more than ten years into a multifunctional park.
At the centre of the park there is a decommissioned
metalworks, the old industrial facilities of which are today
being put to a variety of different uses.
The former factory buildings have been converted to
accommodate cultural and corporate functions; an old
gasholder has become the biggest artificial diving centre in
Europe; alpine gardens have been created in the ore
storage bunkers, and a blast furnace has been developed
into a panoramic tower.
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