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A nice view of the architecture dela things done here in the Canaries.
Although only understand what those who know the local codes.
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ART INDUSTRIAL PARK IBA Emscher

interesting conference

The engineer Paul Otaola Ubieta given on 21 May in the Demarcation of Tenerife, La Gomera Iron and the COAC, entitled "The transformation of the city," he emphasized the role of local management in the implementation of planning. This is exposed to various interventions where this aspect was crucial to their development. The transformation of Bilbao Bilbao 2000 and Zorrotzaurre, and the IBA Emscher Park in the Ruhr, were some of them.

The latter was undoubtedly the greatest interest aroused in me, perhaps because the transformation of Bilbao nearest me and family.

IBA Emscher Park is the name given to the metamorphosis of the old industrial Ruhr region, Germany, between 1989 and 1999. In This created a large park land involving more than 80 communities, in order to restore one of the most degraded landscapes in Europe. It became a symbol and a stimulus for urban change, economic, social and environmental.

Ruhr

Land Art or the art of landscape construction is very present in this speech. The IBA convened several international competitions to select works of art to place in this unique landscape. This caused some controversy among the public to see how large amount of money invested in hiring artists to design the lighting of obsolete industries and extravagant sculptures, rather than use for housing or other social needs.

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However, this focus on art helped strengthen the new line of the initiative and gave the park a great milestone in the landscape. Many of these milestones and sculptures were made with industrial artifacts, strengthen the connection to the area and its history. Also abandoned industries became new attractions for visitors, engineering old with a high cultural value. All this within the strategy to regenerate the economy and the environment of a degraded area, enhancing the original character of the place.

tetrahedron. Photo: Flickr

Industry as a place of cultural interest. Photo: Flickr

The image that I found most attractive was the installation lecture called "The Wall" by the artist couple Christo and Jeanne Claude, specializing in textiles used to wrap or cover large gigantic buildings public areas such as His works "Valley Curtain," "Surrounded Islands" or the covering of the Reichstag in Berlin. However, in this installation did not use textiles, was split in two a gasometer by a huge wall made up of barrels of oil. This gasometer Emscher Park is one of the largest tank-shaped structures in the world. It was built in 1928 and is currently used as an exhibition space. Its structure is 110 meters high with a diameter of 68 meters. No doubt a spectacular space.

The Wall, Christo and Jeanne Claude

To achieve this wall were used 13,000 barrels of colors. In addition to this installation documentation presented two works by the artists mentioned in other countries, "The Umbrellas" (Japan) and the covering of the Reichstag (Germany).

In this way managed to transform this already if unusual space.