Tuesday, October 11, 2011

A Former Nuclear Plant Gets The Theme Park Treatment

It seems that the world’s old nuclear power plants are not all doomed to the stuff of ruin porn, a fact to which this German plant-turned-amusement park can attest. The moody chiaroscuro and contrived grittiness whose “realism” strangles even the most novel attempts at creative renewal have been swapped here for a provincial, Alpine mise en scène, animated by moving crowds, waterfalls, and theme park rides.


Read more: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/31155/a-former-nuclear-plant-gets-the-theme-park-treatment

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