Landscape art casts aside ugly legacy of open mines

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / April 28

They are known as some of the ugliest blots on the landscape left by modern industry. But an attempt is being made to heal some of the environmental damage caused by opencast mining in Scotland's central belt, taking advantage of the upheaval it involves. Scottish Coal has brought in Professor Charles Jencks, the American environmental architect behind the celebrated landform at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and Maggie's Centre in Glasgow, to regenerate three former opencast mines with landscape art. The Ł1m project will target sites in Shotts, Allanton and Fauldhouse, and builds on Professor Jencks's success at integrating cosmological patterns and the shape of the DNA double helix into previous garden designs.

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