2024-11-21T21:09:45-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/61385523/possible-thesis-sites-1-stalin-s-atlantis Orhan Ayyüce 2012-11-14T14:29:00-05:00 >2022-03-16T09:16:08-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ro/rovt58kbwp4bflkj.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>In the 1950s, Soviet engineers built a massive city in the Caspian Sea off the coast of Azerbaijan. It was a network of oil platforms linked by hundreds of kilometers of roads and housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park and apartment blocks. Gradually disintegrating but still closely guarded, this astonishing place inspired a fiery scene in a James Bond movie.</p></em><br /><br /><p> <img alt="" src="http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-424592-galleryV9-xyiz.jpg"></p> <p> It might be few weeks late but I thought this would make a great site for those who are still struggling to come up with a spiffy <a href="http://archinect.com/forum/thread/104328/emergency-thesis-topic" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">idea for a thesis project</a> in architecture schools. For those who wanna, tell them Orhan sent you.&nbsp;</p>