This is pretty nifty. Anything involving tunneling intrigues me, especially when it comes to matters of national defense. And now that its been essentially abandoned, it piques my interest in abandoned infrastructure/industrial wasteland/...?
http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1Lo7L7/sm ... rine-base/
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Balaklava submarine base
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Sisyphus
- Rigging the Ancient Mariner
- Location: The Muckworks
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- Rigging the Ancient Mariner
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This is another one of my faves:
http://www.hudsonriver.com/bannerman-island
My dad has an original catalog, which I found one day at the age of 11. It's held my fascination since.
Here's a vid of what it looks like now, but watch it w/o audio. I'm serious.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2A8sWKsaIAM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
http://www.hudsonriver.com/bannerman-island
My dad has an original catalog, which I found one day at the age of 11. It's held my fascination since.
Here's a vid of what it looks like now, but watch it w/o audio. I'm serious.
<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/2A8sWKsaIAM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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DerGolgo
- Zaphod's Zeitgeist
- Location: Potato
As far as naval "architecture" (in terms of shore-structures rather than boats) goes, I think the WW2 submarine pens at Lorient got most everything beat.
This is how you build submarine pens when the ground is too tough for digging out a basin but you absolutely, positively need it there:
But if you like tunnels, check out this underground munitions factory:
Klick me for more pictures
Built in WW2, used as a munitions depot by the east-German forces from the 70s onwards, and after it was handed over to the west-German Luftwaffe it became the storehouse for all of the superfluous east-German paper-currency, savings-books, fuel-vouchers etc. after 1991.
Unlike many other large underground structures which were backfilled or sealed, it's still there, some private owners are trying to figure out what to do with it...
This would have been part of an underground Autobahn intersection underneath <s>Berlin</s> "Germania".
Became an air raid shelter and was abandoned after the war.
They built a lot of crazy stuff, but like in the USSR, it was built on the blood and sweat of prisoners, which for me puts a big damper on admiring the engineering.
This is how you build submarine pens when the ground is too tough for digging out a basin but you absolutely, positively need it there:
But if you like tunnels, check out this underground munitions factory:
Klick me for more pictures
Built in WW2, used as a munitions depot by the east-German forces from the 70s onwards, and after it was handed over to the west-German Luftwaffe it became the storehouse for all of the superfluous east-German paper-currency, savings-books, fuel-vouchers etc. after 1991.
Unlike many other large underground structures which were backfilled or sealed, it's still there, some private owners are trying to figure out what to do with it...
This would have been part of an underground Autobahn intersection underneath <s>Berlin</s> "Germania".
Became an air raid shelter and was abandoned after the war.
They built a lot of crazy stuff, but like in the USSR, it was built on the blood and sweat of prisoners, which for me puts a big damper on admiring the engineering.
If there were absolutely anything to be afraid of, don't you think I would have worn pants?
I said I have a big stick.
I said I have a big stick.
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What's not to like? It's free labor.DerGolgo wrote:They built a lot of crazy stuff, but like in the USSR, it was built on the blood and sweat of prisoners, which for me puts a big damper on admiring the engineering.
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