This time we want to call attention to the concept of "stored potential".
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| photos by The Reader and Admiral58 |
We have this too-big-to-demolish multi-silo
grain elevator in downtown Omaha (Nebraska) disused for decades yet strong structurally, located a mere stone’s throw from city
center and seen by an estimated 76,000 commuters of I-80 Highway each and
every day, that has been given an
amazing makeover thanks to a collective called Emerging Terrain, founded by landscape designer Anne Trumble.
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| photo by Papparazzi |
The organization achieved great
success in recruiting governmental, corporate, educational and artistic
forces. Involving local artists, the frontage was converted in a showroom suitable for semi-temporaries exhibitions, and also -not
meaning "instead of"- for punctual commercial banners in its 6x24 meters
panels.
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| image via Emergin Terrain |
Here we are talking about applying art as a solution for the visual pollution of a monstrous,
abandoned, degradated, mid-20th century grain elevator; or repurposing to revaluing. But the idea is to create value where there was
once
only dereliction and decay (and revaluing may be mean revaluating), just using the "stored potential" acumulated by this place. And every place has its own.
Because places are spaces that are valued.
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| photos by Emerging Terrain |
-original story via web urbanist.
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