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« BBC Casteneda documentary; New Firefox extensions; Life/death art | Main | Backstory on Dylan's Pulitzer; Congress is on Twitter » April 13, 2008Elegant river-powered shelters for canoers
The Mill at thecoolhunter.net - architecture, a great place for a Sunday drive. The Mill is a river shelter for canoers. My first thought was to put one in Waterplace Park in downtown Providence. Heh. ... Finnish architect and artist Sami Rintala, together with architecture student Janne Saario, has created The Mill, a modern wilderness hut that will be located in the Halikko river in south western Finland, near the town of Salo, mid-way between Helsinki and Turku. The wooden shelter even includes fireplaces and sleeping platforms and the waterwheel in the middle of the stream produces the energy for use in the shelter. To be completed in the fall of 2008, The Mill is part of Halikonlahti Green Art Trilogy, which in turn is part of an ongoing multi-year "Cross-artistic and Scientific Environmental Event" The 39-year-old Rintala has created experimental and environmentally sustainable installations and experimental buildings all over the world, form the Scandinavian countries to Cuba, Canada, Japan and Korea. By Tuija Seipell
Want to try The Mill out? Here's a map pinpointing Salo, Finland -- east of Sweden, north of Estonia, west and a bit north of St. Petersburg, Russia... Posted by Sheila Lennon |
my passport photo blogging since 2002 garden blogs archived headlines  Sheila Lennon is features & interactive producer of projo.com, the Web site of The Providence (R.I.) Journal Rhode Island |
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