“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.

This impressive structure is opened for tourists.”

The size and scope of this sewer system is unbelieveable. Just take a look at the truck in the picture above to get a sense of how big this project was. I’m totally blown away by it. How do they build something like this? It must take stuff like math and physics or something.  Go here to check out more pics and YouTube videos.

(Copyright Joe McNally)

• Joe McNally has a really poignant blog post about the life size polaroids he took just after 9/11 and the search for a permanent home for them. The actual process of how you go about shooting a polaroid this size is amazing, but the story of the photos themselves and the people in them is even more amazing. Here’s the link to the post.

That’s it for today. See you tomorrow with more.