Not Your Average Cat Lady

A Danish landscape architecture firm is using design to build climate resilient infrastructure in Copenhagen.

According to the IPCC, Denmark (among other things) will have to deal with more frequent and heavier rainfalls as a consequence of climate change. In recent years, 2011 and 2014, the city experienced two one-hundred-year floods. A risk assessment done as part of the city’s climate change adaptation plan showed that risk of flooding from storm water is already high and will increase every decade until the early 22nd century.

In its adaptation plan, the city of Copenhagen recognises that updates to its sewerage system will need to factor in the increased runoff volume. However, they also decided to build infrastructure that would disconnect rainwater from the sewerage system and thus take pressure off it.

The architecture firm Tredje Natur (“Third Nature”) was founded in 2012 by Flemming Rafn Thomsen and Ole Schrøder. That same year the firm made headlines for presenting their plans for Copenhagen’s first climate adapted neighbourhood in the Saint Kjeld’s quarter. The project uses water and potential runoff volumes as a defining design element, however, it does not so in a restrictive way. The architects tried to use water to create new urban experiences and how urban spaces are used.

One major feature in Saint Kjeld’s is ‘Tåsinge Plads’. At first sight this unassuming square resembles squares in any other city you might care to name. However here there is more than meets the eye. They key to unlocking its secret? Just add water.

Collectanea botanica, or, Figures and botanical illustrations of rare and curious exotic plants

By Lindley, John, 1799-1865 

Richard and Arthur Taylor.

Publication info London :Printed by Richard and Arthur Taylor, Shoe-Lane, sold by J. and A. Arch … ,1821-1826.

Contributing Library: Missouri Botanical Garden, Peter H. Raven Library

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GreenLand Ice Berg

like the implication here is that this stuff is abnormal and non-ideal but don’t worry you still get to be beautiful in spite of that bc… this person says so? you get a shoutout! yay! stop lol