Forest grows in the middle of a football stadium in Austria. (hit link to see several pictures)

[Stuart G]

Something I've never seen before, Stuart G

(CNN) — Football stadiums have long been synonymous with noise and commotion.

But an art installation in Austria is turning this idea on its head in a bid to draw attention to climate change and deforestation.

Wörthersee Football Stadium in Klagenfurt has been transformed into a magnificent forest for a new project by Swiss artist Klaus Littmann.

The huge pitch, located near Lake Wörthersee in the southern Austrian state of Carinthia, is now lined with around 300 trees, some weighing up to six tons each.

"For Forest -- The Unending Attraction of Nature," which launches September 8, was inspired by a dystopian drawing completed by Austrian artist and architect Max Peintner more than 30 years ago.

Hit link to see forest in a stadium (football is soccer in Austria, stadiums are the same)


https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/forest-grows-in-the-middle-of-a-football-stadium/index.html

[IphengeniaBlumgarten]

2. Austria, not Australia. Edit your headline? nt

[Stuart G]

3. Oh well, we all make mistakes...?? It isn't really a terrible mistake, but it has been changed.

Thank You for pointing it out..

[marble falls]

4. So this is an art installation and will be removed. Seems like a waste of trees.

[pansypoo53219]

6. the trees are gonna be transplanted elsewhere. if they live.

[tclambert]

5. "They took all the tress and put 'em in a tree museum/and they charged the people a dollar and half

just to see 'em./
Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone./
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot."