The Berg

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The Berg was a proposed landscaping project by German architect Jakob Tigges to build the world's largest artificial mountain at the location of the present Tempelhof airport in Berlin, Germany. [1] [2] Plans to construct a 1,000-metre-high (3,300 ft) mountain that could serve as a recreation area and wildlife refuge were not pursued due to budget and logistic considerations. [3]

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References

  1. The Berg Home Page
  2. The Berg: The biggest artificial mountain in the world, ArchDaily, retrieved 16 November 2009
  3. Scalise, Joseph (5 May 2016). "UAE wants to build artificial mountain to stimulate rainfall". www.sciencerecorder.com. The Science Recorder. Retrieved 17 Jul 2016.