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July 2001
› Long, Sunlit Days
› Almelo Re-visited
› Plant Life
› Ruhrgebiet Germany Weekend Tour
› Landschaftspark Continued
› "The Eiffel Tower of the Ruhrgebiet"
› Zollverein Coking Plant
› Kokerei Zollverein Continued
› Krupp Villa Hügel
› Duisburg Aupenhafen
› Visit to Berlin, Germany
› Reichstag, Berlin
› East Berlin Places
› Nighttime at the Potsdamer Platz
› Day Two - Sanssouci Park
› Funkturm and Berlin Wall
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Landschaftspark Continued
Saturday, July 07, 2001; posted by Paris

The idea employed here - of preserving and recognizing the benefits of industrial production and industrial design - could also be successfully employed by the cities in the Rustbelt of the US. Instead of letting old facilities decay and rot, or destroying them for massive malls, why not preserve some of our own industrial heritage? Already, people from all over the world come to study the grain elevators in Buffalo, New York - famed for their use of advanced technology and design.

Cooling towers.

Overhead pipes and smokestack.

Window of one of the buildings.



Paris 'operates' the controls at the plant.

Sebastian and Paris composing black and white, and digital pictures.

Sebastian smiles after taking macro shots of old machine controls.