Green Dream Park Limps into Bird's Nest

Source:English.news.cn 2010-07-21 09:24:57; Date: 2010-7-20; By apolo; Clicks:449

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After last winter's World Chocolate Dream Park and the recently launched Dino Dream Park, yet another dream-themed park, the Green Dream Park, has opened at the Bird's Nest.

The 20,000-square-meter Green Dream Park (GDP) is an environmentally focused attraction separated into five indoor and six outdoor exhibition spaces, with such themes as paper, glass, recycled arts, papermaking, er, robots and Transformer.

At the first glance outside, the most noticeable highlight would definitely be the 11.5-meter high, six-ton Transformer-style model made out of abandoned vehicle parts from trucks, Jeeps, 20 minibuses and 16 motorbikes.

This iron giant is, in fact, the most attention-grabbing thing in GDP, but there are plenty of other "works of art" made from trash in the park's grounds. Metal installations and models are scattered about, made of a range of materials including pots and pans, and even spoons, knives and forks. As the GDP's chief organizer Lin Zhengzong said, "Each piece exhibited in this park is the brainchild of creativity. Garbage is, in fact, a resource put in the wrong place."

Apart from the car-part robot series, there are several smaller pieces of steel artwork. Liu Dingzan from Taiwan , 52, was enthusiastic about showing visitors his work, which included a metal locust made from the motorbike engines. "All the metal and steel pieces that aren't Transformers-themed are my work. I didn't do the Transformer series because I wanted to stick to original creations," Liu told Lifestyle.

Liu called himself a "steel artist," and used to work in the machine manufacturing industry. Another series of his work on display in the GDP features spoons and forks to create a flexible and graceful dragonfly. The silver tone of the steel presents a strong contradiction to the rusted iron background. As for the motivation for doing a spoon series, Liu said he was encouraged by his wife. "She gave me a spoon and said it was beautiful." So he went to the supermarket to buy 127,000 yuan worth of cutlery - surprising to hear, because we'd thought the "Green Dream" sculptures were all made of old, discarded items.

Other "highlights" in the GDP are the "paper space," an exhibition hall displaying folded paper products from the Great Wall to animals, and varied home décor items like sofas or bookshelves. But the practical use for yellow furniture made of wrapped recycled paper remains unclear, and visitors are kept away from finding out for themselves on the exhibition stage, which doesn't offer a try-it-yourself section.

Due to the early opening, some other areas didn't get the chance to make their debut. But the partial appearance of the GDP has already raised the public's awareness of at least one use of the garbage we generate on a daily basis: When all else fails, you can always make a robot sculpture out of it.

(Source: Global Times)

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