Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain is an
art installation
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and landmark in
Duisburg
Duisburg (; , ) is a city in the Ruhr metropolitan area of the western States of Germany, German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. Lying on the confluence of the Rhine (Lower Rhine) and the Ruhr (river), Ruhr rivers in the center of the Rhine-Ruh ...
,
Germany
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, built in 2011. It was designed by Ulrich Genth and Heike Mutter. It resembles a
roller coaster
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, but it is a
walkway
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'' The New Oxford American Dictionary'' also defines a walkway as "a passage or path for walking along, esp. ...
with
stairs
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. Its
vertical loop
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continues the walkway and stairs but is unwalkable and blocked off. In 2013, Tiger and Turtle – Magic Mountain was ranked as #6 on
HuffPost
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's list of Most Extreme Staircases.
Gallery
References
See also
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Pohang Space Walk
''Pohang Space Walk'' () is a walkable sculpture located in Hwanho Park, Buk-gu, Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It was completed on November 18, 2021 and opened to the public the following day. The original name for the struct ...
'', a similar sculpture in
Pohang
Pohang (; ), formerly spelled Po-Hang, is the largest city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea, with a List of cities in South Korea, population of 499,363 as of 2022, bordering the Sea of Japan, East Sea to the east, Yeongcheon to the w ...
, South Korea
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Buildings and structures in Duisburg
Culture in Duisburg
Stairways
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