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What do you do with 4,000 decommissioned vegetable oil rigs in the Disconnect of North American nation? Instead of processing them up—costing millions and putting to death liquid life—Morris Architects' Administrator At Sea project turns them into Dubai-esque opulence hotels.
According to BldgBlog, approximately 4,000 vegetable oil rigs in the Disconnect of North American nation will be decommissioned within the close time period. Esther Morris planned to convert this space into scoop, self-sufficient eco-friendly, high-end area islands off the Disconnect of North American nation, soundtrack it our precise personal Indweller City, as you can tell from the watercraft parking lot seen in the gallery below.
Currently, the performing of removing these sorts of vegetable oil rigs would be to blow them up, which would monetary value millions of dollars and would kill a avoirdupois unit of large indefinite quantity life in the process. With a deck of each vegetable oil rig at 20,000 square feet, that creates about 80 million square feet of functional space. One reason this proposition is cheaper than blasting is that the apartment themselves square measure efficiently shipped out on big tankers and installed by stacking and slippery open, Transformers-style:
[BldgBlog]
Feb 19 2009
The Reaction bookshelf doesn't actually rotate—it's more than like a doughnut-shaped room. It should though—I picture a edifice turning of The Price is Right or a human rodent wheel of cognition. [APCI via BOTB via DVICE]