Month: April 2021

From the Fenland Black Oak Project:

The story begins 5000 years ago when, deep inside the East Anglian Fenland Basin, an incredible ancient high forest once stood. Over time, and a rise in sea level, these spectacular Oak trees fell into the silt of the flooded forest floor where they have been preserved like black treasure in the peat.

In 2012 Hamish Low and his team made an incredible discovery. At over 13 metres long and perfectly preserved they found the buried giant of that ancient high forest.

Against all odds, they successfully milled and dried ‘The Jubilee Oak’ and now this team of master craftsmen are setting out to give this piece of history a magnificent new legacy.

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From Wikipedia:

Phytoremediation technologies use living plants to clean up soil, air, and water contaminated with hazardous contaminants. It is defined as “the use of green plants and the associated microorganisms, along with proper soil amendments and agronomic techniques to either contain, remove or render toxic environmental contaminants harmless”. The term is an amalgam of the Greek phyto (plant) and Latin remedium (restoring balance).

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From Dezeen:

Studio Marco Vermeulen has unveiled its design for The Dutch Mountains, two connected hybrid skyscrapers made from cross-laminated timber and concrete in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

The Dutch Mountains building will comprise two rectangular towers, 130 and 100 metres tall, and was designed for a central location in Eindhoven in the city’s railway zone next to the Dommel river.

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