“like a conveyor belt built to toss tea-drinking scientists into the icy sea” – mammoth // building nothing out of something

“like a conveyor belt built to toss tea-drinking scientists into the icy sea”


[Halley VI, a British research station on ski pods, via Wired.]

At Wired, Andrew Blum surveys the architecture of Antarctic research stations, which, as it includes buildings which have to be towed to remain at fixed geographic points, hydraulic lifts that raise buildings in reaction to snowfall, and architecturally-induced “subzero maelstroms”, reads like a photographic companion to the recently opened Archigram Archival Project.

This entry was written by rholmes, posted on April 27, 2010 at 10:19 pm, filed under architecture, asides and tagged . Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

2 Responses to ““like a conveyor belt built to toss tea-drinking scientists into the icy sea””

  1. Barry Lehrman says:
    April 28, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    cool! really, pun not intended.

  2. Exotic Architecture #1 « IM Design says:
    June 8, 2010 at 3:02 pm

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