Giant Japanese Storm Sewer
June 3rd, 2009
Some of these photos from a storm sewer in Saitama, Japan remind me a lot of the alien pyramid in Total Recall… Awesome movie!
To avoid floodings on typhoon season, the city of Saitama built an extremely large and impressive storm sewer system. Its construction started in 1992, and its composed by giant concrete silos (65m tall, 32m wide) connected by 6.4km of underground tunnels 50m below the surface. It also has a giant tank: 25.4m tall, 177m long and 78 wide, with 59 concrete columns.
So basically it holds a whole heap of water!
Found at Arch Daily. You can also check out the official website.
Holy snot that is freaking amazing, and when machines take over it will totally help with our resistance!!!! Good job Japan!