The public park Landschaftspark in Duisburg-Meiderich, Germany.
Attempt was made to preserve as much of the existing site as possible.
The waste water in the open canal was replaced by clear water.
Bridges and footpaths were added.
Where the heavily contaminated sintering plant once stood, is now a flourishing meadow and a shady grove.
The entire park is a huge festival place where as many as fifty thousand people gather during festivities.
Another part of the site was a former gypsum and limestone quarry.
Architect Jean-Charles Alphand completely remade the landscape, digging up a lake and shaping the lawns and hillsides.
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A notable predecessor to Landschaftspark was theGas Works Park in Seattle.
The 19-acre site was a gasification plant that produced coal gas used for lighting, cooking, and refrigeration.
The plant also manufactured tar, lampblack, charcoal briquets, sulfur and toluene.
Rather than removing the gasworks, the derelict structure was incorporated into the park.
Gas Works Park in Seattle.
Festival 2018 in Ferropolis.
Zollverein was among the largest coal-mining facility in Europe, and a leading example of German heavy industry.
Immediately after, the state bought the coal mine territory and began preserving the site.
The various buildings have been repurposed as art galleries, exhibition halls, and restaurants.
There is also a swimming pool and an ice skating rink.
A swimming pool inside the Zollverein Coal Mine Complex.
Not all of them were turned into parks.
Onegasometer in Oberhausenwas transformed into an exhibition hall, and severalgasometers in Viennawas made into livable apartments.
The building was originally a power station.
