Guy Maunsell: The Maunsell Forts

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The Maunsell Forts are armed towers built in the Thames and Mersey estuaries during the second world war to help defend the UK. They were operated as army and navy forts, and named after their designer, Guy Maunsell (Maunsell also designed forts for anti-aircraft defense). These were larger installations comprising seven interconnected steel platforms.The forts were decommissioned in the late 1950s and later used for

Gianluca Santosuosso: Morphotel

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The Morphotel is a concept that joins the idea of a floating hotel and a slow round-the-globe cruise ship created by Italian architect Gianluca Santosuosso. Built around a flexible spine, the Morphotel can adapt its shape to handle differing weather conditions, or to more neatly fit into the space available at a whichever port of call it is visiting. Instead of embarking of a set