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Singapore has embarked upon the excavation of an underground oil reserve, expanding the city's industrial port beneath the floor of the Pacific Ocean. It is "no ordinary construction site," the BBC tells us, but an elaborate project of engineering and infrastructure currently underway "several hundred feet underground, below the seabed in Singapore." More »
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This is concept art for the Embassy of Drowned Nations, an artificial island on Fort Denison in Sydney, Australia. The facility would be used to temporarily house those who've been displaced by rising sea levels. More »
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Doctor Moreau had one. Syndrome from The Incredibles had one. And if you want to perform your morally questionable experiments, you should probably get one, too. Remote islands allow you to build killer robots, death rays, or societies of human-animal hybrids in peace and privacy, without attracting the unwanted attention of the outside world. Luckily, several real-life islands offer a secluded setting where you can advance the cause of science. More »
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A Danish architecture firm is creating an entire district in China from scratch as a series of three connected islands. The district will be located in a low-level wetland between canals and rice paddies. Because it doesn't get a lot of natural sunlight, the design relies on reflections from water brought in to run in between the buildings for brightness. You can see the layout of the islands below. More »
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