Swedes turn nuclear bunker into data center…. (reposted and UPDATED)

beardie79 — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:00:32 +0000

UPDATE:
This cracker of a data centre has now been listed as the location for Wikileaks, as the following BBC video shows:

As a fan of great architecture and IT this project presses all the right buttons. A stunning combination of nature and technology, this place would be worth starting a website just to host it here.

Architects: Albert France-Lanord Architects
Location:Stockholm, Sweden
Program: Datacenter
Collaborators: Frida Öster and Jonatan Blomgren
Geology Consultant: Geosigma AB
Construction: Albert France-Lanord Architects
Client: Bahnhof AB
Construction Area: 1,200 sqm
Project year: 2008
Photographs: Åke E:son Lindman

The project takes place in a former 1200 square meter anti-atomic shelter. An amazing location 30 meters down under the granite rocks of the Vita Berg Park in Stockholm. The client is an internet provider and the rock shelter hosts server halls and offices. The starting point of the project was to consider the rock as a living organism. The humans try to acclimate themselves to this foreign world and bring the ‘best’ elements from earth: light, plants, water and technology. We created strong contrasts between rooms where the rock dominates and where the human being is a stranger against rooms where the human being took over totally.

Full article from www.archdaily.com