2018年8月11日 · More than half the people of Coober Pedy, an opal mining town in the center of the South Australian desert, live underground to survive the scorching summer heat and …

2025年4月7日 · Earth-sheltered homes were also widely used in areas of the world where timber was hard to come by. In Iceland, a combination of a lack of standing forest and extreme winter …

2018年10月24日 · For about a century, residents of Coober Pedy have escaped the searing heat by building their homes underground. Tamara Merino captured life beneath the earth. Jürgen …

2025年3月13日 · The legacy of Cold War uranium mining has shattered lives and created a toxic threat to the last clean source of groundwater for an entire region. ... Sidewalks lead to …

Despite cases of extreme poverty, many coal miners’ homes were still neatly put together. They may not have had many belongings, but they did the best with what they had. The company …

These unique miner’s homes are more examples of the ingenuity and determination of the pioneers that settled the American West. Thankfully some of these structures where …

2016年9月28日 · Old mining towns and research shacks lie in ruins in the Svalbard islands. Abandoned research stations in Svalbard. These old shacks at the Kinnvika Polar Research …

2021年2月5日 · A Cold War–era missile silo base there on 32 acres, converted into an underground home, has come on the market for $1,599,475. It was built as an Atlas E missile …

2021年11月11日 · About 30 cottages were built on the Simpson Mine property starting in 1910 & used to house strikebreakers during the Long Strike of 1910-1914. Available records show that …

Arc House Defined by an arc, this gently curving house uses passive solar design to capture the sun’s energy during the day and then store it in its interior mass to stabilize interior …