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From: "Architexturez." <admin-in@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 20:04:35 +0530
Architexturez. wrote:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1358982,00.html
Architects off to the Antarctic
| update... behold the (yawn) winner!
Futuristic design for new Antarctic base
July 27, 2005 A futuristic design by Faber Maunsell and Hugh Broughton
Architects has won the competition for the new British Antarctic Survey
(BAS) Halley Research Station. The new station will have a series of
mechanical legs on skis that enable it to stay above the surface of the
ice and be relocated inland to minimize the risk of loss due to calving
events. Designed to withstand extreme winds and freezing winter
temperatures down to minus 56 degrees Celsius, the new design will
provide a safe, stimulating place for scientists to live and work, in a
building designed to minimize its impact on Antarctica's pristine
environment.
con'd...
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/4330/