No one wants to live near a runway, but you definitely don't want to live by Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands. It's the fourth-busiest airport in Europe, and it's located in what might be the least soundproof place on Earth: a cold, wide-open flatland where noise can travel unobstructed for miles.
After researchers discovered that things got quieter whenever nearby farmers plowed their fields, they hired landscape artist Paul de Kort to design a peculiar kind of park. Its pattern of noise-deflecting ridges intercepts the sound waves generated by arriving and departing aircraft and bounces them skyward.
(thanks Cora)
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