Dumping with Style

Top marks to those behind the creation of the 'mounds' at Northala Fields, Greenford, Middlesex in the UK. Faced with the problem of what to do with 000s of cubic metres of spoil from nearby construction works (Wembley Stadium and White City) the London Borough of Ealing commissioned a grand design that is creative, artistic, practical, sustainable, as well as being an impressive feat of engineering.

http://www.art2architecture.co.uk/current/northala.htm#
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/275147

Rather than dump the spoil into a hole in the ground it is being used to build four large mounds to enhance the quality of life of those in the vicinity of the A40. To call them mounds is perhaps to mislead. They are conical in shape, and aside from being pleasing to the eye they will help dissapate noise from the busy A40 that runs alongside it.

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