#dry dock
Commander Byrd’s South Pole ships (likely Bear of Oakland) at East Boston dry dock
Leslie Jones, 1933
Boston Public Library Print Department, Leslie Jones Collection
Accession # 08_06_002232
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Danish National Maritime Museum
Danish architecture studio BIG has completed an underground maritime museum that loops around an old dry dock in Helsingør, Denmark
Rather than filling the empty dock, BIG chose to repurpose it as a public courtyard at the centre of the new museum, then added a series of bridges that cut into the 60-year-old walls.
“By wrapping the old dock with the museum program we simultaneously preserve the heritage structure, while transforming it to a courtyard bringing daylight and air in to the heart of the submerged museum,” said Bjarke Ingels, the founding partner of BIG.
Read more at dezeen
Photo by Iwan Baan
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