{"id":6444,"date":"2011-02-26T08:02:50","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T08:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=6444"},"modified":"2011-02-26T08:02:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-26T08:02:50","slug":"quarry-garden-sculpture-at-pedreres-de-shostal-as-an-example-of-the-after-use-of-mineral-workings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/quarry-garden-sculpture-at-pedreres-de-shostal-as-an-example-of-the-after-use-of-mineral-workings\/","title":{"rendered":"Quarry garden sculpture at Pedreres de s&#039;Hostal as an example of the after-use of mineral workings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pedreres-de-s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pedreres-de-s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pedreres-de- s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration\" width=\"775\" height=\"581\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6641\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pedreres-de-s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pedreres-de-s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pedreres-de-s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/pedreres-de-s-hostal-stone-quarry-restoration-624x468.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Quarries are famed for their propensity to create &#8216;a scar on the landscape&#8217;. But they can also produce wonderful results, as land sculpture on a supra-human scale and majesty. This has led me to conclude that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/landscape_architecture\/landscape_plans_planning\/eid_environmental_impact_design\/minerals_environmental_impact_design\">Permission for new quarrying  projects should only be given when a restoration and after-use plan has been prepared and agreed with the planning authorities<\/a>. BUT there is also a possibility of making something good, and something which is a work of art, when the after-use of the mineral working was not planned in advance. The Pedreres de s&#8217;Hostal quarry is a good example of this.<br \/>\nThe Pedreres de s&#8217;Hostal stone quarry on the island of Minorca, Spain became disused in 1994. It was then taken over by a non-for-profit organization (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lithica.es\/home-Ing.html\">L\u00edthica<\/a>) and is being made into a post-industrial heritage park<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/carlospons\/112534927\/sizes\/o\/\">Carlos Pons<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quarries are famed for their propensity to create &#8216;a scar on the landscape&#8217;. But they can also produce wonderful results, as land sculpture on a supra-human scale and majesty. This has led me to conclude that the Permission for new quarrying projects should only be given when a restoration and after-use plan has been prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}