Industrial
Nature/Landscape
Exterieur
Excavation Mount Saint Pieter
Lage Kanaaldijk 115, 6212 NA Maastricht
In the distance, a kind of “moon landscape” where economics defeated culture and nature. The cement company ENCI undermines the historic tunnel system on the flanks of the Sint Pieters Mountain and crushes the flora and fauna with cranes and bulldozers. Is that bad? The work has provides deep lakes, new growth and - ironically enough - a slag heap that is higher than the Sint Pieters Mountain itself. Industry that gives and does not only take away...