Pruned: Elefantasia

An air-conditioned landscape-within-architecture-within-landscape architecture-monument-landscape as proposed by the engineer Charles-François Ribart for the site where the Arc de Triomphe now stands in Paris. I personally prefer Ribart's. Where else can you now dine in a forest in the underbelly of an elephant? The mad modern Parisian traffic might be circling outside, but inside you're refreshed and calm, cooled down by an elaborate internal pachyderm hydrology.

POSTSCRIPT #1: For a much larger and color version of the image, go here. (22 October 2012)

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Anonymous
March 3, 2006 at 7:58:00 AM CST
Evokes memory of the Coney Island, Luna Park Elephant Hotel.

And the Moulin Rouge, Paris. (wonder if this is the same design)

Jess Haskins
March 3, 2006 at 8:15:00 AM CST
That's wonderful. It is like the Moulin Rouge elephant, but about a hundred times better.

Alexander Trevi
March 6, 2006 at 2:17:00 PM CST
Or perhaps Claude Bell's Dinosaurs as well. Now recently converted into a Creationist Park.

And vicki: Will the elephant be roaming around? Nice if the scenery changes as you dine, a new landscape to match each course.

Anonymous
November 17, 2010 at 5:16:00 PM CST
The swedish version - not as fancy setting, but still... big...

http://www.stoorn.se/_eng/index.html

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	Elefantasia Thursday, March 02, 2006 #faunaphilia An air-conditioned landscape-within-architecture-within-landscape architecture-monument-landscape as proposed by the engineer Charles-François Ribart for the site where the Arc de Triomphe now stands in Paris. I personally prefer Ribart's. Where else can you now dine in a forest in the underbelly of an elephant? The mad modern Parisian traffic might be circling outside, but inside you're refreshed and calm, cooled down by an elaborate internal pachyderm hydrology. POSTSCRIPT #1: For a much larger and color version of the image, go here. (22 October 2012) In the Archives: Brodsky & Utkin The Enigmatic Jean-Jacques Lequeu (Via the Athanasius Kirchner Society.) 4 COMMENTS — Anonymous March 3, 2006 at 7:58:00 AM CST Evokes memory of the Coney Island, Luna Park Elephant Hotel. And the Moulin Rouge, Paris. (wonder if this is the same design) Jess Haskins March 3, 2006 at 8:15:00 AM CST That's wonderful. It is like the Moulin Rouge elephant, but about a hundred times better. Alexander Trevi March 6, 2006 at 2:17:00 PM CST Or perhaps Claude Bell's Dinosaurs as well. Now recently converted into a Creationist Park. And vicki: Will the elephant be roaming around? Nice if the scenery changes as you dine, a new landscape to match each course. Anonymous November 17, 2010 at 5:16:00 PM CST The swedish version - not as fancy setting, but still... big... http://www.stoorn.se/_eng/index.html Post a Comment — Comments on posts older than a week are moderated — —— Newer Post Older Post —— Home	1