I was looking at photographs of some of the constructions used as inspiration for the levels in Mirror's Edge when I cam across this cavernous structure underneath Tokyo:
This is The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, or the G-Cans Project. It's an impressive work of engineering for something meant to divert flood waters. The largets of its kind in the world, it has somewhat unsurprisingly achieved a large enough following for tours to be available. It certainly kicks the arse of a certain Historic Underground Tour...and it's better-constructed.
What architectural or engineering works have you come across in your lifetime that you could gaze at contentedly for hours? You can choose anything, whether it be fantasy or reality, doodles by a concept artist, statues, memorials, buildings or just something that you walk past every day on your way to work. The only rule is that it must be something that made you feel awe or fascination. What is it that sets it apart from other works of its kind? If it's something you see often, tell us what you know about its construction and purpose.
This is The Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel, or the G-Cans Project. It's an impressive work of engineering for something meant to divert flood waters. The largets of its kind in the world, it has somewhat unsurprisingly achieved a large enough following for tours to be available. It certainly kicks the arse of a certain Historic Underground Tour...and it's better-constructed.
What architectural or engineering works have you come across in your lifetime that you could gaze at contentedly for hours? You can choose anything, whether it be fantasy or reality, doodles by a concept artist, statues, memorials, buildings or just something that you walk past every day on your way to work. The only rule is that it must be something that made you feel awe or fascination. What is it that sets it apart from other works of its kind? If it's something you see often, tell us what you know about its construction and purpose.
