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TICCIH Bulletin Number 66, 4Th Quarter 2014 Number 66 Passing of Louis Bergeron (1929-2014) 4th quarter, 2014 Contents Report • Art on a coal mine: the new Silesian Museum, Dr Anna Sulimowska-Ociepka Dear TICCIH Members, Worldwide It is with great sadness that I inform you of the death of our • Notes from Detroit: can the Packard Plant rise esteemed colleague and leader Professor Louis Bergeron on the again? Miriam Kelly evening of October 9, following one month of illness. His influ- ence and prolific work in defining the field of Industrial Heritage • New historic dockyard museum, Falkland Islands is known not only in France, but also around the world. Among • The Oil Island at Ängelsberg - the world’s oldest his many achievements was his leadership of TICCIH as President refinery, Lars M. Larsson during the critical period from 1990-2000. A more thorough statement about his life and career will be prepared for publica- • The landscape of the Minas de Río Tinto, Spain tion in due time. Eusebi Casanelles Sincerely, Patrick Martin TICCIH Congress XIV LILLE-REGION 2015 • A city-wide promotion of the industrial heritage: Opinion Elbeuf-sur-Seine (Seine-Maritime), Geneviève Dufresne Adaptive re-use of the cloud James Douet Modern industrial museums • Petr Kožíšek, Head of the Road and Water The cloud is among the most misleading metaphors that market- Transport Department at the National Technical ing has ever created. There is nothing airy or intangible about the Museum of the Czech Republic, Prague remote service centers that hold our photos, shared documents, emails and digital music. The insatiable thirst for storing digital • The Museum of Geothermal Energy - Italy information has created a major heavy industry, its centres in Dr Simona Politini, many ways not much different from the great warehouses of the age of manufacturing. • The Luigi Micheletti Award 20th anniversary, Laura Diamanti Indeed, some of them are great warehouses from the age of manufacturing, their traditional qualities of massive construction Conference reports and spacious interiors attracting the new barons of the digital • National Congress of Industrial Heritage: industry. Challenges of Industrial Heritage Conservation, The R.R Donnelley Printing Plant in Chicago used to house the Tokyo 14 – 15 July, 2014 heavy presses for turning out Yellow Pages and Sears, Roebuck catalogues. The 1912-29 building is a fireproof design of poured Publications received concrete columns and an open-shell concrete floor. Since the • Liverpool: seaport city, last major account closed it has been converted into a ‘carrier Neil Cossons and Martin Jenkins hotel’ or data center, owned by Digital Realty Trust, the first and largest in the United States. Meanwhile, out in the stable lands of Coming up Phoenix, Arizona, a collocation centre, providing online services • Conferences and Congresses of medium size to clients in nearby California, has recycled an old www.ticcih.org bottled water factory. Opinion Among the factors that determine where a data center is lo- Other storage plants make a virtue out of proximity to data. cated are the availability of land or tax incentives and impunity The New York Telephone Company Building at the foot of the to seismic activity, but, above all, its operation requires direct Brooklyn Bridge is among the most visible, the 32-floor former access to large amounts of cheap electricity and a cold and telephone exchange becoming a facility to store Wall Street dry climate that facilitates the task of keeping the temperature deals. Deeper into Manhattan the 1928 skyscraper Number inside under control, with thousands of revolving disks needing 60 Hudson Street connects over 300 different data networks. to be refrigerated. Proximity to data exchange centres is sought by trading firms, to capitalize on infinitesimal advantages in time which can be A sign of the times came in 2009 when Google bought the gained by minimising the distance that information has to travel redundant Summa paper mill from Finnish company Stora Enso down the cables. and cleared out the horizontal paper machines to make room for a data center. It showed a change of attitude by tech compa- The site which most betrays the idea of the fluffy, white insub- nies willing to give a more visible face to data storage for their stantiality of remote storage is Radix Cloud in the Swiss canton customers. Water pumped from the Finland Bay helps to keep of Uri. Nowhere better combines anonymity with earthquake the processors and hard disks cool. The symbolism of gigantic impunity and high security than this recycled former Cold War rolls of newsprint being replaced with a digital media for trans- bunker, abandoned by the Swiss army in 2007. Maps on the wall mitting information has been lost on no-one. apparently still show Berlin divided in two halves. Other traces of its past include a Faraday cage for making secure calls with- Even the issue of industrial contamination has its symmetry, the out risk of interception. But that is another issue entirely which chemical pulp and solvents for which the paper industry was the giants of the data industry are being forced to face. Perhaps troubled being replaced by the waste heat pollution from the a Snowden cage is what is needed. processors. Chicago’s Lakeside Press Building was built between 1912 and 1929 and is now The former Stora Enso pulp mill was empty for several months before being known as the Lakeside Technology Center. This handsome daylight factory with bought for 40m€ by Google, who wanted the cold water of the Finland Bay for Art Deco decoration was designed by Howard Van Doren Shaw. refrigeration. The Alvar Aalto-designed machine hall will be restored under the conversion. Bornholm granite quarry, Denmark. TICCIH’s new the- matic report on quarries is discussed in Teruel, Spain, at the end of October. It will help guide ICOMOS in assessing these complex landscapes of sometimes competing historic and natural values. The meeting also stages the launch of the new European Quarries Network. http://www.quarrylandscapes.teruel.es/ 2 TICCIH Bulletin No. 66, 4th quarter 2014 Report New Silesian Museum The mine operated continuously from 1823 to 1999, regardless of the changing economic and political situation. After its clo- Dr Anna Sulimowska-Ociepka sure the majority of surface structures were demolished. Only Faculty of Architecture, Silesian University of a few, representing the greatest historical value, were preserved Technology, Poland but the degraded post-industrial lanscape became an obstacle on the way to the harmonious development of the city. Katowice is the capital of the Upper Silesian conglomeration - the largest industrial concentration in Poland. Industrial de- The story of the construction of the new museum building goes velopment began here nearly 200 years ago, with the discov- back to the 1980s. But it wasn’t until 2005 that the investment ery of shallow coal deposits, and the first coal mines and steel works could start. In that year the area of the former coal mine mills started to operate in the first half of the 19th century. was transferred to the city and in 2006 the Silesian Voivodship’s In the 1990s the country underwent a political and economic Management approved the Regional Operation Program for the transformation and a lot of outdated and underfunded indus- years 2007-2013. trial complexes collapsed. Those changes also resulted in the disintegration of Silesia’s industrial heritage. It was easier and The first step of the investment works was the announcement cheaper to demolish historic industrial buildings than introduce of an international architectural competition. The results were them to a new function. announced in June 2007 and the winner was the Austrian design studio Riegler Riewe Architekten of Graz. Construction itself This process of destruction slowed after Poland entered the began in 2011, after collecting all the documents, carrying out all European Union in 2004. Due to new funding opportunities and the necessary tenders as well as preparing the land and obtain- a change in social awareness of the value of industrial heritage, ing the European Commission and the Ministry of Culture and a lot of new investments in post-industrial areas were made. National Heritage’s the final decision, concerning the subsidies. Within two years of construction an inconspicuous box, costing One of the latest realisations is a new building of the Silesian approximately 82 million Euros, had appeared. However, its gen- Museum http://www.muzeumslaskie.pl/en/index.php, erected uine value, as well as a surprise, are hidden under the ground’s on the area of the former Katowice Coal Mine in downtown surface where visitors may find a reference to the place’s mining Katowice. traditions as well as a respect for the mine’s historic buildings. The Katowice coal mine at the beginning of the XXth century. 3 TICCIH Bulletin No. 66, 4th quarter 2014 Report Above the surface there appears merely six architecturally neu- The entire investment constitutes the first element of a new tral glass boxes, which illuminate a 6,000 m2 exhibition space. culture-based strategy in creating a so-called ‘Area of Culture’. The compact solid, measuring 212 m by 55 m, has been hidden Other facilities including the Concert Hall of the National Sym- 14 m under the ground. It creates a two-story, open exhibition phony Orchestra and the International Conference Centre are space linked to suspended ramps, and presenting both pre-war in the final stages of construction and will play an important and contemporary art as well as an exhibition on the produc- part in the new city landscape. tion of weaponry materials by the Silesian military industry dur- ing the 19th and 20th centuries. With the construction of the new Silesian Museum, a degraded and isolated post-industrial area has been reincluded in the In the underground part of the museum you will also find con- urban structure of the city.
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