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New Oslo Opera House Is Really a Stealth Skate Park
United Kingdom Architecture News - Nov 28, 2008 - 16:50 8061 views
"We have this fascination with buildings becoming topography," says Alejandro Zaera-Polo, a partner at Londons Foreign Office Architects,"and skateboarders have that physical experience." So for a park inBarcelona, his firm extended paving stones up the sides of smallhills—to shield vegetation from salty sea breezes. At least thats whatit told city officials. But skaters got the message. The resultingquarter-pipe landed on the March 2006 cover of Transworld Skateboarding.
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