antarctica – mammoth // building nothing out of something

Tag Archives: antarctica

April 27, 2010 – 10:19 pm

“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 […]

By rholmes | Posted in architecture, asides | Comments (2) | Permalink
February 27, 2010 – 8:00 am

katabatia

[Perhaps the perfect image for mammoth to end our participation in Glacier/Island/Storm week (it’s been great fun, and lots of great research, commentary, and speculation has been posted) with: an Antarctic glacier sinking past Inexpressible Island (really) into Terra Nova Bay, while providing graphic evidence of the powerful winds which operate on the Antarctic coast.  […]

By rholmes | Posted in asides, landscape | Also tagged , , , | Comments Off on katabatia | Permalink
November 8, 2009 – 10:32 pm

beneath the antarctic ice

[Composite false color image of the Erebus Ice Tongue, a 7-mile-long, 33-foot-high sheet of ice projecting off the Erebus glacier in Antarctica, carved into unusual shapes by the summer waters of McMurdo Sound; via Wired Science: “During the summer, when the rest of the sea ice in McMurdo melts, the ice tongue floats on the […]

By rholmes | Posted in asides, landscape | Also tagged , | Comments Off on beneath the antarctic ice | Permalink
May 20, 2009 – 1:18 pm

puns, endorsable and not

Everything about this project highlighted on Infranet Lab is great, except for the title (“Arctic-tecture”).  Enough with the “archi-” and “-tecture” titles.  On the other hand, both of the research projects that Arctic-tecture’s author, Andrea Brennan, was/is involved in at MIT pair good work with equally good names (both projects were published in Volume, in […]

By rholmes | Posted in asides, the-expanded-field | Also tagged | Comments (3) | Permalink