Cooling Towers
I could not resist getting these when I saw them for a good price. I have a vision of these two bad boys over at my cokeworks contrasted against the large smokestacks of the coke oven batteries. To me they say "industrial."
This specific prototype is based on European hybebolic wood/steel natural draft cooling towers and were designed by Hans-Joachim Balcke from Germany in the 20's. In the US, however, the main design of the time came from Marley of Kentucky and were more squat and squarish but these hyperbolic deals are just too darn iconic AND cool not to pass up.
Is this like Bethlehem Steel sending plant Engineer/Designer John Fritz over to Europe to investigate European practices? Perhaps so shhhhhhhh
This specific prototype is based on European hybebolic wood/steel natural draft cooling towers and were designed by Hans-Joachim Balcke from Germany in the 20's. In the US, however, the main design of the time came from Marley of Kentucky and were more squat and squarish but these hyperbolic deals are just too darn iconic AND cool not to pass up.
Is this like Bethlehem Steel sending plant Engineer/Designer John Fritz over to Europe to investigate European practices? Perhaps so shhhhhhhh