Category Archives: gardening

We’ll take the high road

6 Sep ’06 – 10:25 pm

The crazy proliferation of highways has left a century or more of rail infrastructure redundant. As it languishes it often turns into the only nature reserve in highly urbanised areas. The High Line in New York is a typical example. If you’ve ever been to Chelsea you’ve probably seen it. It’s a mile and a [...]

By Ian Milliss | Also posted in architecture, heritage, planning, transport | Comments (0)

The black swan of trespass

28 Jul ’06 – 10:39 pm

Repeatedly at auctions I have passed up tyre swans and more importantly tyre urns because they weren’t exactly what I wanted so now I find myself still swanless and none appear at auction anymore. I was forced to think about this when I came across this site selling bus brake planters. I have some planters [...]

By Ian Milliss | Also posted in art | Comments (6)

What can you do with an old cement works?

19 Apr ’06 – 9:59 am

It’s taken me a while to get round to the adaptive reuse of this blog but I’ve finally cleared out all the old stuff and we are now going to use it as originally intended, looking at adaptive reuse, usually of buildings but occasionally of other apparently redundant human artefacts. I’ve always thought that making [...]

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