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JDRS
February 4th, 2006, 01:45 PM
From BBC News (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4679490.stm)

Futuristic park for west London

Residents are being asked to dig deep to help fund a £5.5m futuristic park in west London.

The 18.5 hectare (45 acre) space named Northala Fields in Ealing will have a fish pond and an amphitheatre for public events.

The park's most dramatic feature will be four giant conical mounds designed as a shield from the noise and pollution from the nearby A40.

Money raised will go towards building play and educational facilities.

A visitor centre and a cycle bridge are also planned for the site, which Ealing Council hopes will include "elements of biodiversity, renewable energy and land art".

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41293000/jpg/_41293010_park203.jpg
Medo
February 4th, 2006, 02:01 PM
looks good, although I don't see anything futuristic about it :|
Justme
February 4th, 2006, 06:13 PM
^^^ It'll be built in the future, therefore it's "futuristic".

otherwise a case of media artistic license in action ;)
Madman
May 8th, 2006, 04:43 PM
It looks uncannily similar to those celtic mounds you find across the West Country
JDRS
May 8th, 2006, 04:45 PM
Just to say that this is well under construction now. I'll try and get some photos when I next go past it.

More renders:

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_plan2.jpg

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_axo.jpg

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_bridge3a.jpg

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_bridge3b.jpg

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_building1.jpg

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_2003_northala2.jpg

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala/_2003_northala1.jpg
JDRS
May 8th, 2006, 04:48 PM
Worth checking out the site of the practise behind this as well who have done all sorts of things from Picadilly Gardens in Manchester to the lighting scheme on 1CW:

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/
Isaac Newell
May 8th, 2006, 08:26 PM
Looks like landscaped slag heaps from an old coal mine. Bringing Barnsley to West London.
Medo
May 9th, 2006, 02:30 AM
tits :happy:
potto
May 9th, 2006, 07:54 AM
Barbarella? I like them, adds some adventure into what could be a rather boring piece or urban grassland
Skyscraperkid2K4
May 9th, 2006, 07:57 AM
:lol: thats like 10 seconds from where i live, in fact my brother and his school took a trip there to plant some trees there. Seen rubbish drawings of what it was going to look like when it was first announced to us but these look cooler :) When i go college today i try to get some pictures