What was here before This park opened in 2021 on a site that had previously held a derelict car park and abandoned houses. The original idea could easily have been to demolish everything and build a clean new park from zero. Instead, much of what was already there was kept and reused. Why it is interesting Walking through it, you still feel the old structure. Walls, terraces, underpasses, bridges and leftover concrete elements are not hidden away. They become part of the park itself. That is what I liked most here: it is not just a pretty green space, but a place where you can still read what…
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