A Dutch architectural firm has come up with a plan to give birds, insects, and sea life new, protected habitats along city waterways, and has set its sights set on Mumbai or New York for the prototype. Koen Olthius, founder of Netherlands-based city planning and architectural firm, Waterstudio, has come up with a way that we can give back some of the city back to the wildlife that can’t afford to leave. According to Adele Peters at Fast Company, the design of the so-called ‘Sea Trees’ is based on floating oil platforms - large, shelved structures that sit in the ocean for storage. Olthius says that waterways make up almost 90 percent of the space occupied by the worlds largest cities. Our favourite locations would be Mumbai or New York,he added. Both have such a high price on land that it makes the construction of new park zones on land not feasible.
Posted on: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 02:39:26 +0000
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