l ime geology ruins industry abandonment
resources | remnants by michael leeb
City near Hillcrest Mines, Alberta
tower draw kilns with semi-circular arches and slight entablatures for structural support
at the tower’s base resemble the towers of cathedral architecture romanesque or crusader fortifications watchtowers of smoothed, thick walled, cyclopean stonework
now the abandoned battlements of economic progress
lime from limestone placed in wooden barrels made on-site
for an emergent economy the westward expansion of a new Dominion of railways, coke ovens, and kilns
Lime City was a community in the Crowsnest Pass. It grew up around three lime kilns built to use the thousands of tons of lime that had landed on the town of Frank in a massive landslide in 1911. With the end of a construction boom associated with the western Canadian Wheat Boom that had crashed just before WWI, the production of lime at this site stopped and Lime City fell into ruins. The development of infrastructure and economic progress is often detrimental to the environment, something that remains relevlant to our contemporary economy and the environment as a public space.
watchtowers of a former era the incipient development of industrial monoliths
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the lithic ruins of siege engines
once called: progress now, a modern aesthetic the perception of beauty
found
in
ruination
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