Archive for November, 2009

Townsley’s current living space is about 1,100 square feet and completely round and surrounded by thick concrete.

Every room in the structure revolves around the center pillar like a clock — kitchen, living room, office, bedroom — all separated by short partition walls built by Townsley.

via Apartment Therapy Unplugged | Abandoned Nuclear Missile Silo Home.

 Of course one thing I’ve seen plenty of are bunkers. Hoxha got it through his head that the outside world (American imperialists, Krushchevite revisionists or misguided Maoists) was about to invade Albania and to repel them he built concrete bunkers all over the country – 700,000 of them, one for every 4 Albanians! Some of them are big enough for a troop of soldiers but most are a tight squeeze for one person. They litter the whole country, particularly along the coast. The photo above is of a nicely situated coastal bunker.

via Tony Wheeler.