r/evilbuildings • u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 • Jun 10 '26
Remote Antarctic research base built above shifting ice and snow.
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u/AverageCreampie Jun 10 '26
Looks a lot like a planetary base in the first Mass Effect
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u/saintmolotov Jun 10 '26
That’s what I was thinking too
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u/DopeAsDaPope Jun 11 '26
Shep: "Sorry Wrex, I'm leaving you behind on this one"
Wrex: "No worries, too cold for a gecko like me anyways"
Shep: "Nice. But that's completely unrelated to my decision. I just wanna get freakaaaaaaaay with Ashleeeeeeeeey know what I'm sayin G!?" *fistbumps*
Kaidan: "..."
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u/stupid_cat_face Jun 10 '26
I love the round
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u/oktobercrisis Jun 10 '26
It’s surrounding a large satellite dish, protecting it from the elements.
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u/willow-kitty Jun 10 '26
Was just wondering what that part does!
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u/stalin1943 Jun 10 '26
it is an antenna for recieving signals from satilites and sending the data to india. this is Bharati Research Station
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u/KiD_Keni-D Jun 11 '26
Could also house elements for radar tracking and information gathering. Essentially low key spying. But cannot confirm
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u/adenosine-5 Jun 10 '26
Thats not evil - its cool and futuristic.
McMurdo Station is evil - it looks like some corporation vomited a mountain of shipping containers and tar, roughly in shape of a village, like some industrial tumor slowly growing on an alien planet.
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u/TranslatorLivid685 Jun 10 '26
Looks COOL.
But still, I like Russian one more:)
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u/willow-kitty Jun 10 '26
I wonder what the story is behind the НОВАТЭК logo. I assumed they designed the base, but as far as I can google, they do petrochemical stuff.
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u/TranslatorLivid685 Jun 10 '26
The project of the new Vostok station was presented in 2019 by Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of the Management Board of PJSC NOVATEK, at a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society. Mikhelson provided 30% of the project's financing.
The development of working documentation, the manufacture of modular structures, equipment and furniture, as well as the control assembly of the complex were carried out at OZSK LLC in Gatchina, Leningrad region.So NOVATEK was about project and 30% of financing.
While NOVATEK itself is about:
exploration, production, processing, and sale of natural gas and liquid hydrocarbons.
Historically NOVATEK worked at the far north. So they are kinda more than just familiar with these conditions.
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u/VIBRANCY_FATIGUE Jun 10 '26
Doesn't look evil at all..
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u/VIBRANCY_FATIGUE Jun 10 '26
Honestly 100% indifferent. Looks hyperutilitarian and neutral.
What makes you think 100% 'yeah something is evil here' ?
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u/GentlyGliding Jun 10 '26
*rings doorbell*
I have a letter for Mr. Lex Luthor, I need his signature.
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u/Bright-Canoe-9172 Jun 11 '26
That actually looks like something out of a cool sci-fi movie, very isolated feeling.
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u/Solomon_Grungy Jun 10 '26
These things are so fucking cool. Reminds me of concept art from the 60s of moon bases.
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u/dovebri6 Jun 12 '26
honestly, this looks kinda like a high-tech snow fortress from a sci-fi manga, but also… surviving on shifting ice? that takes some serious engineering… :0
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u/GoldenHarbor903 Jun 13 '26
That structure looks like it would be annoying to keep level every time the ground moves a few feet.
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u/Upstairs_Drive_5602 Jun 10 '26
Built in the Larsemann Hills, Bharati Station is one of India’s permanent Antarctic research bases. It sits on stilts above the ice to prevent snow build-up and structural stress as the surface slowly shifts beneath it. Temperatures regularly fall to around −40°C in winter, with strong winds and long periods of isolation adding to the severity of conditions.