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Chain of tank-like fortresses would protect Japan from natural disasters and human enemies [Architecture]
These gloomy citadels are just a concept design, one that imagines a massive defense network that could surround and defend Japan. Using a chain of breakwaters and drainage channels, these fortresses would protect the coast from tsunamis, while serving as an added layer of defense for man-made threats to the islands. More »
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Jamie Rappaport Clark: Using Nature to Protect Against Natural Disasters
Defenders' new report, "Harnessing Nature," demonstrates that by strengthening natural defenses like floodplains, wetlands, and forests -- which help with erosion protection, flood control, and water filtration -- we can "harness na... Read Post
Hundreds of families sign up to live in the Citadel - an armed, 'defensible' fortress community planned for Idaho
Hundreds of families have signed up to join a new community dubbed the Citadel, an armed and 'defensible' fortress city where their freedoms and liberty will be fiercely protected.Organisers have outlined plans for a community of 3,... Read Post
Sci-Fi Fortress of Skyscrapers to Surround & Defend Japan
This is a conceptual project with a breathtaking scope: to create a perimeter of citadels surrounding Japan, protecting the island nation above, on and below the ground. Like turrets of an impossibly large fortress, the idea (perhap... Read Post