MoPo 2009
Maya Lin - Stormking Wavefield (Photographer: Jerry L. Thompson)
Welcome to the new listing of the Most Popular weblogs on architecture: the MoPo 2009. Eikongraphia congratulates Geoff Manaugh with a hattrick. His blog, BLDGBLOG, leads the chart for the third time in a row. Further congratulations go to all the other bloggers that made it into the MoPo 2009. You are among the twenty-five most popular blogs on architecture worldwide.
A weblog is included in the MoPo 2009 when it’s an English blog on architecture written by a single writer. The popularity of the blog is measured by the number of subscribers (Google Reader + Bloglines) and the number of hits in Google (Google + Google Images).
Tempelhof Mountain 2
Tempelhof Mountain (Copyright The Berg)
A kind of movement has developed, architect Jakob Tigges says, supporting the idea of building a mountain on the site of Tempelhof airport in Berlin. The German newspaper Tagesspiegel has taken the effort to talk to some of the supporters of the plan that have thought about how to actually build Tempelhof Mountain. In this post I will translate and summarize the article of the newspaper.
After a long debate Tempelhof airport has been closed last fall. The 300 hectare site now is about to be developed into another, regular neighborhood. In protest of that plan Jakob Tigges has proposed a 1071 meter high mountain for site. Tigges believes the Tempelhof site deserves something out of the ordinary. Not necessarily a mountain, but something.