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This documentary from VBSTV illustrates new mean of transportation for cocaine between Columbia and Mexico/US by designing and building more or less sophisticated submarines which allows to carry seven tons of goods in a clandestine way. Those boats are undetectable from the sea and hybridize low-tech and high-tech in a quite interesting way...

An obvious reference linking architecture and the sea comes from Jacques Rougerie 's work since the beginning of the 70's. Rougerie did invent a lot of boats, submarines and subaquatic villages and farms and keep creating some of them nowadays. He works on a barge on the Seine in Paris and owns an amphibian car to link his passion to his working environment...

Following is an extract of a beautiful series of pictures of Shipwreck. I really like the timeless aspect of those ships waitng their slow destruction by outside elements. They looks like ruins in a desert, with no real scale ... just amazing!

Following is an extract of a beautiful series of pictures of Shipwreck. I really like the timeless aspect of those ships waitng their slow destruction by outside elements. They looks like ruins in a desert, with no real scale ... just amazing!

Sailboat Tara is in Paris (on the Petit Palais' bank) until january 11st. This boat has been doing a lot of expedition around the world (for example in 2005, French artist Pierre Huyghe and some friends of his went to Antartica doing some research) and now exhibit its last journey in Artica. Tara was built in 1989 after having beeing designed by Luc Bouvet et Olivier Petit , architects for Jean-Louis Etienne, a client passionnate in Antartica. Principle was to create a solid boat able to slip - with rudders and fins obviouly removed - on icefield in order to stay on it just in the same way that norvegian navigator Fridtjof Nansen did with his boat, Fram in the XIXth century. This last exhibition last one year and half between 2006 and 2008 and consisted in a drift on the north pole's ice field while scientific research were achieved. More informations, pictures and videos on Tara's official website

Sailboat Tara is in Paris (on the Petit Palais' bank) until january 11st. This boat has been doing a lot of expedition around the world (for example in 2005, French artist Pierre Huyghe and some friends of his went to Antartica doing some research) and now exhibit its last journey in Artica. Tara was built in 1989 after having beeing designed by Luc Bouvet et Olivier Petit , architects for Jean-Louis Etienne, a client passionnate in Antartica. Principle was to create a solid boat able to slip - with rudders and fins obviouly removed - on icefield in order to stay on it just in the same way that norvegian navigator Fridtjof Nansen did with his boat, Fram in the XIXth century. This last exhibition last one year and half between 2006 and 2008 and consisted in a drift on the north pole's ice field while scientific research were achieved. More informations, pictures and videos on Tara's official website