Inhabitat reports that German architect Jakob Tigges released his design, titled “The Berg,” to construct a 3,280-foot man-made mountain on the site of the former Templehof airport in Berlin, saying that it would attract snow-sport loving tourists in an otherwise flat city.
Tigges said in his manifesto: “While big and wealthy cities in many parts of the world challenge the limits of possibility by building gigantic hotels with fancy shapes, erecting sky-high office towers, or constructing hovering philharmonic temples, Berlin sets up a decent mountain… Hamburg, as stiff as flat, turns green with envy, rich and once proud Munich starts to feel ashamed of its distant Alp-panorama and planners of the Middle East, experienced in taking the spell off any kind of architectural utopia immediately design authentic copies of the iconic Berlin-Mountain.”
So far, the project’s only accomplishment is Facebook-fame, having hit nearly 9,000 likes on its page, as well as garnering plenty attention from the German press.
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