pruned.blogspot.com - 2/10/2009
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(Pedreres de s'Hostal, Minorca, Spain. Photo by Lluis Bertran.) Pedreres de s'Hostal is a disused stone quarry on the island of Minorca, Spain. In 1994, the quarry saw its last stonecutters, and since then, the non-profit organization Líthica has been hard at work transforming this industrial ...
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Minorca Spain
Super Colossal —
Pruned on the work to turn a disused stone quarry in Minorca, Spain into a post-industrial heritage park.
Notes on desiging social-ecological systems
Resilience Science —
Pruned on the rehabilitation of degraded landscapes presents Pedreres de s’Hostal : Pedreres de s’Hostal is a disused stone quarry on the island of Minorca, Spain. In 1994, the quarry saw its last stonecutters, and since then, the non-profit organization Líthica has been hard at work transforming this industrial landscape into a post-industrial heritage park. Conservation Magazine’s Journal Watch reports on a recent paper Willis, S.G . et al. 2009. Assisted colonization in a changing climate: a test-study using two U.K. butterflies . Conservation ...
Pretty Pictures: Stone Spaces #1
Tropolism —
1. Ningbo Historic Museum by Wang Shu, Amateur Architecture Studio. Photo by Iwan Baan, found at ArchDaily.
2. Pedreres de s'Hostal, by Josep Triay Tudurí, via Pruned.
3. The historic quarry of Denia, Spain, at Vicente Guallart.
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