Neatorama » underground http://www.neatorama.com The Neat Side of the Web Wed, 25 Nov 2009 07:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Waiting for the End of the World http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/24/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/08/24/waiting-for-the-end-of-the-world/#comments Mon, 24 Aug 2009 13:03:50 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=25804

Many folks built small bomb shelters to survive a nuclear attack during the Cold War, but others took the idea to great lengths. Good Magazine has a pictorial taken from the book Waiting for the End of the World by Richard Ross, in which you’ll see the interiors of shelters meant to house people waiting out the apocalypse. From Switzerland to Texas, you’ll see how people prepare for the end of the world as we know it. The underground dining room shown is in Sanpete Country, Utah. Link -via Dark Roasted Blend

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Found in the Luray Caves, Virginia, this has got to be amongst the most astonishing musical instruments in the World.

The organ was designed by Leland Sprinke in 1956 and replaces traditional organ pipes with the stalactites found naturally in the caverns. The Great Stalacpipe Organ literally ROCKS!

Link

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by cakehead loves evil.

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When they were not too busy conquering distant lands, the Romans liked to dig. German hydromechanics professor Mathias Döring discovered that Roman engineers spent a century digging a 66-miles long underground aqueduct to bring water to modern day Syria:

The soldiers chiseled over 600,000 cubic meters of stone from the ground — or the equivalent of one-quarter of the Great Pyramid of Cheops.

“Over the first 60 kilometers, the tunnel has a gradient of 0.3 per thousand,” explains the project director. That works out to 30 centimeters per kilometer — an astonishingly shallow angle of descent.

Link – via britannica

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Minnesotastan.

]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2009/03/23/longest-underground-aqueduct-in-the-world-discovered/feed/ 6 The Forgotten Subway http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/the-forgotten-subway/ http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/04/the-forgotten-subway/#comments Wed, 04 Feb 2009 06:28:31 +0000 Miss Cellania http://www.neatorama.com/?p=22564 The tunnel under Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn was New York’s first subway tunnel. It was built in 1844, then abandoned in the late 1850s. For over a hundred years, the tunnel seemed to be only a rumor, until an teenage urban Indiana Jones named Bob Diamond decided to unearth the tunnel once and for all. Link

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London artists now have a solution to the dilemma of renting expensive studio space to work in. Furniture designer Auro Foxcraft purchased four old Underground subway cars for 200 pounds each and mounted them to a rooftop, creating some unique, affordable office space.

Located atop a warehouse in Shoreditch, London, Village Underground as it’s called, only costs artists 15 pounds a week. And while the roof is a work area for artists the warehouse below is used to exhibit their work.

Link

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by whitespace.

]]> http://www.neatorama.com/2009/02/03/your-very-own-art-studio-in-a-subway-car/feed/ 2 One Mile Tunnel Under London For Sale http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/one-mile-tunnel-under-london-for-sale/ http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/one-mile-tunnel-under-london-for-sale/#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:20:22 +0000 Jill Harness http://www.neatorama.com/2008/11/29/one-mile-tunnel-under-london-for-sale/ Need a cool hideout or a secret lair for all your evil plans? A mile long tunnel under central London is up for sale right now for only $7.4 million. This Cold War relic is perfectly suited for all super villians in need of a good “underground” hideout, especially since it comes with a bar, two canteens and a billards room.

Link Via BoingBoing

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This one to the left is the catacombs below the chapel in West Norwood Cemetery in London, England.

Link – Thanks Craig Kohler!

Update 10/16/07: They’ve got 7 More Underground Wonders of the World.

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