Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord Country Park - Park Design

Abandoned industrial sites are some of the most intriguing spaces to me. Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord Country Park in Germany has done an amazing thing; it has taken an industiral site and turned it into a 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 climbing gardens have been created in the former ore storage bunkers, and an extinct blast furnace has been developed into a panoramic tower.