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- 8 incredible parks created from landfills Tue, 2 Jun 15, 4:10am1. Mt. Trashmore, Virginia Beach Talk about turning trash into treasure - the satirically dubbed Mount Trashmore went from being an abandoned landfill to becoming the Virginia's most visited park. Tony Hawk, among several...
- PHOTOS: Ai Weiwei’s Amazing Chinese Dragon Flies Through the Air at Alcatraz Wed, 1 Oct 14, 7:27amAi Weiwei's With Wind installation greets visitors with a colorful explosion of paper forms that take flight within the former prison. The dragon is a symbol of power and freedom, however its paper construction is delicate....
- Ai Weiwei’s Amazing Chinese Dragon Flies Through the Air at Alcatraz Wed, 1 Oct 14, 7:27amAi Weiwei's With Wind installation greets visitors with a colorful explosion of paper forms that take flight within the former prison. The dragon is a symbol of power and freedom, however its paper construction is delicate....
- Ai Weiwei’s Spectacular Chinese Dragon Flies Through the Air at Alcatraz Wed, 1 Oct 14, 4:36amAi Weiwei's With Wind installation greets visitors with a colorful explosion of paper forms that take flight within the former prison. The dragon is a symbol of power and freedom, however its paper construction is delicate....
- Ai Weiwei Creates a Massive Metal Bird Wing From Tibetan Solar Cookers and Teakettles Fri, 26 Sep 14, 12:55amThe installation is meant to represent freedom, but is immobilized like a trapped animal inside one of the lower gun galleries of the penitentiary’s New Industries Building, and can only be seen from above...
- Ai Weiwei Uses 1.2 Million LEGO Bricks to Portray 176 Political Prisoners and Exiles Thu, 25 Sep 14, 7:59amAi Weiwei is no stranger to imprisonment - the artist is a fierce critic of the Chinese government, and in the past he has been secretly detained for 81 days, beaten by Chinese police placed under house arrest, and his passport...
- 10 Landscape Design Projects That Turn Damaged and Neglected Spaces Into Healthy, Beautiful Environments Wed, 4 Dec 13, 2:00amThe High Line Park in NYC. Photo by Jill Fehrenbacher for Inhabitat Landscape architects frequently work to transform areas that contain industrial and toxic waste, infrastructure no longer in use, or land affected by war,...