THRUSDAY 15TH Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord
Landschaftspark used to be an industry building where coal and steel were produced, but they closed it in 1985, and the priority of intervening in a region undergoing an advanced process of deindustrialisation led to the creation of the body IBA-Emscher Park, in 1989. Its programme addressed the ecological and economic renewal of the area cut through by the river Emscher.
Instead of being demolished, the old factory buildings, were masterfully put to use in other creative, practical and aesthetic ways.
- Landschaftspark has huge areas to host hundreds of people and it has a big stage to host music festivals at summer.
- The defunct blast furnace has been converted to a lookout tower, where visitors can enjoy fantastic panoramic views across the wide, green parkland.