No one knows quite what to call the Prelude , thefloating behemoththat Shell engineered to take out rude gas from below the sea base and liquefy it for use . It ’s unvoiced to describe Prelude because it ’s so much big thanany other float structure homo have ever build — which is also what puddle it difficult to shoot .
In an awesome tarradiddle inThe New York Times Magazineyesterday , photographer Stephen Mallon get by to capture the integrality of Prelude thanks to a Harold Hart Crane he used to shoot ( and combine ) more than 1,000 separate pic of the vas , which is still under construction and is made from more steel than the World Trade Center . Lucky for us , Mallon has upload his tremendous composite photograph to Photosynth , so you could check it out for yourself .
If Prelude seems like a class of watercraft unto itself , never to be replicate , you ’d be wrong . As we reported originally this class , at least 30 other city - sized ships just like it are currently being planned by other companies . [ The New York Times Magazine ]
Lead mental image : AP Photo / Shell International .
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