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ArchDaily: Impressive Storm Sewer System / Saitama, Japan
“To avoid floodings on typhoon season, the city of Saitama in Japan features an impressive storm sewer system. Its construction started in 1992, and its composed by giant concrete silos (65m tall, 32m wide) connected by 6.4km of underground tunnels 50m below the surface. It also has a giant tank: 25.4m tall, 177m long and 78 wide, with 59 concrete columns.”
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Dilgepwent Says:
“A movie was shot here I think. One of the Die Hard movies with Bruce Willis involved a chase scene to get to an explosive located (I think) in these tunnels. That would have been the late 90’s but some of these pictures are too familiar.”
- RH
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