Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz International Competition 1st Place / Estúdio 41

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Architects: Estúdio 41
Location: Península Keller,
Project Architects: Emerson Vidigal, Eron Costin, Fabio Henrique Faria e João Gabriel Moura Rosa Cordeiro
Area: 3,200 sqm
Year: 2013
Photographs: Courtesy of Estúdio 41

Estúdio 41 shared with us the winning proposal for the Estação Antártica Comandante Ferraz International Competition. All the details after the break.

The World’s First Relocatable Research Center Opens in Antarctica

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This bizarre looking creature is the world’s first relocatable research facility. Located on the Brunt Ice Shelf in , the Halley VI Research Station was officially opened on Tuesday, more than one hundred years after Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Antarctic expeditions.

More on the building and its uncommon features after the break…

Flowerdale Community House / Antarctica

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Architects: Antarctica
Location: , Victoria, Australia
Project Team: Graham Crist (Project Director), Nicola Garrod (Project Architect)
Contractor: Kendall Constructions
Consultants: Keith Long and Associates
Project Area: 460sqm
Completed: September 2011
Photographs: Antarctica

   

Belgium opens science station in Antarctica

opened a new €20 million “zero emissions” polar science station in on Sunday, returning to the continent to study climate change 42 years after closing its first base there.

The Princess Elisabeth research hub is totally energy-self-sufficient and also aims not to emit any carbon dioxide, according to the International Polar Foundation, which runs the base.

Read the full article, here.