While man-made clouds are proposed for London, Berlin is looking at a proposal for a man-made mountain.
A 900m-tall snow-capped artificial mountain has been proposed by architect Jacob Tigges as an iconic landmark for the German city of Berlin - AJ | The Berg
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Would this be solid dirt and rock or would there be something inside? Environmentally friendly....except for the fact that they would have to destroy another mountain somewhere to get all the materials...or make a huge hole somewhere...
According to the first century B.C. Roman architectural writer Vitruvius (2004, 2: 1-2), the peak of Athos, the mountain peninsula today occupied by the world's largest Orthodox Christian monastic community, captured the imagination of an even more ambitious and eclectic artist. Dinocrates, Alexander the Great's architect in the fourth century B.C., proposed to carve Athos into a colossal human figure (by implication that of his patron), holding in the left hand a very extensive city (Alexandria) and in the right a bowl to receive the water of all the rivers in the mountain. Dinocrates' project was never realized, Alexander's wisdom and rationality won out over the megalomania of the young architect. And yet the "Dinocratic myth" remained a powerful vision circulating across space and time: from the Classical world to the Italian Renaissance; from Revolutionary France to modern Greece. The "mountain of Alexander the Great" has been subject of not only treaties, satires, and poems but also engravings, paintings, and, more recently, proposals for its realization. If on one hand it outraged ancient thinkers, Renaissance artists, and present-day environmentalists, on the other it has never ceased to stir imagination and desire.
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This would be stupid if it wasn't so fucking stupid.
And once it's finished, we'll build a death star.
Would this be solid dirt and rock or would there be something inside? Environmentally friendly....except for the fact that they would have to destroy another mountain somewhere to get all the materials...or make a huge hole somewhere...
Please tell me this is a joke. PLEASE!!!!
I really miss the mountains now that I'm in the Midwest. Maybe I should just build some!
You can move mountains if you put your mind to it!
Could Jacob Tigges create a mountain so big that he himself couldn't even move it? HAH! Take that believers!
According to the first century B.C. Roman architectural writer Vitruvius (2004, 2: 1-2), the peak of Athos, the mountain peninsula today occupied by the world's largest Orthodox Christian monastic community, captured the imagination of an even more ambitious and eclectic artist. Dinocrates, Alexander the Great's architect in the fourth century B.C., proposed to carve Athos into a colossal human figure (by implication that of his patron), holding in the left hand a very extensive city (Alexandria) and in the right a bowl to receive the water of all the rivers in the mountain. Dinocrates' project was never realized, Alexander's wisdom and rationality won out over the megalomania of the young architect. And yet the "Dinocratic myth" remained a powerful vision circulating across space and time: from the Classical world to the Italian Renaissance; from Revolutionary France to modern Greece. The "mountain of Alexander the Great" has been subject of not only treaties, satires, and poems but also engravings, paintings, and, more recently, proposals for its realization. If on one hand it outraged ancient thinkers, Renaissance artists, and present-day environmentalists, on the other it has never ceased to stir imagination and desire.
For what it's worth, Der Spiegel covered this same story nearly a year ago (via Pruned).
Totally bizarre. That first aerial view reminds me of Sim City. But, in a strange way, I'm all for it.
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