Look closely at the picture posted below! The beautiful snow headed mountain full of flora, fauna, little streams, water falls and integrated activities like trekking, skieing and what not! What a beautiful place to be, but where is it??
It is "the berg" - world's largest man-made mountain which is more than 1000 ms tall and will be in every aspect as close to, if not better than, a real mountain..!It is proposed to come up in Berlin, at the site of the former Tempelhof airport. This is proposed as a tourist attraction in the otherwise slopeless city and is initiated as part of adding green spaces to urban environments..
It is conceived, developed and detailed by the german architect Jakob Tigges and has already stirred up a cyclone of reactions and a mixture of emotions world-wide. The world architecture is still unsure whether it should be actually built or retained in the extends of human imagination..Standing tall at 1023m, if built, it will bag the tag "World's Highest Icon".
By the time I completed my studies, I had one thing clear about my way ahead in Architecture. I would not build to leave a scar on Mother Earth and would remain second to none other than the "Creator". But "The Berg" is an alluring challenge to my idealist idea. It alters the Mother Earth in a 'claimingly' improved manner..
Thinking a little further I feel, for the same reasons why "human cloning" is considered unethical, this would also be an intervention unadvised! While I enjoyed reading up about "the BERG" and remain appreciative of the Architect who developed it to the point of execution, I feel that as a responsible architect, he should leave it at that..
What do you feel about "the BERG" ?
