Evgeny Didorenko shared with us his project whose aim of a landmark was not to create a monument to the power of the industrial age and conquest of nature, but rather a monument to nature. Doing so would acknowledge the generous gifts nature has given us that was produced centuries and even millenniums ago. Brown coal – one of it’s gifts. More images and architect’s description after the break.
PEP – piece of earthen pie. A piece of earth cake. A cake, we eat it. It is big, useful, tasty. This is, in my opinion, a very good synonym for the mining industry and in particular for the production of brown coal, which still is one of the main unsustainable energy sources on the planet. But the general trend is ok, mankind refuses unsustainable energy sources, in favor to use ecologically safe, renewable, sustainable such as solar, wind, geothermal energy etc. This is the problem of reclamation of former industrial areas. Particular example – the former coalfields.
