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Building Highlight: Frozen Wasteland Cocoons--East Ongul Island, Antarctica
| June 20, 2012 | Tweet |
Outdoors, the thermometer reads 80 below and the winds whirl at 120 mph.
Indoors, it’s toasty warm.The ultimate in form following way behind
function, these Antarctic boxes are also wrapped in a “single shell,”
with features to withstand the most unforgiving climactic conditions on
the planet. Hardened at Japan’s Showa Station, near the northern part of
Antarctica, Misawa Homes’s extreme-climate construction skills have
evolved to include designs that the firm claims are built to withstand
100 years of Antarctic punishment.
Read more: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efel45ejkk/frozen-wasteland-cocoons-east-ongul-island-antarctica/#gallerycontent
Read more: http://www.forbes.com/pictures/efel45ejkk/frozen-wasteland-cocoons-east-ongul-island-antarctica/#gallerycontent
