_urb_: Mines || The Last Frontier? It’s hard not to look at a photograph of a mine and get inspired. Well, maybe mortified as well, but, yes, somehow strangely inspired. Maybe it is the megastructuralist that lies within…I mean, look at these images of Diavik Mine in Canada, featured in an NPR article today. They look like a land_art-megastructuralists wet dream: a massive earthen superstructure just waiting to be infilled, modulated, and plugged-in. Actually, if you flip through Justus Dahinden’s Urban Structures for the Future, many of the projects resemble the mine’s not so subtle topographic deformations (both innies and outties). Take Chaneac’s Crater City for example. It is basically a series of man-made mines served straight up.

_urb_: Mines || The Last Frontier?

It’s hard not to look at a photograph of a mine and get inspired. Well, maybe mortified as well, but, yes, somehow strangely inspired. Maybe it is the megastructuralist that lies within…I mean, look at these images of Diavik Mine in Canada, featured in an NPR article today. They look like a land_art-megastructuralists wet dream: a massive earthen superstructure just waiting to be infilled, modulated, and plugged-in. Actually, if you flip through Justus Dahinden’s Urban Structures for the Future, many of the projects resemble the mine’s not so subtle topographic deformations (both innies and outties). Take Chaneac’s Crater City for example. It is basically a series of man-made mines served straight up.