OZ Architecture has designed hospitals in Rwanda, resorts in China, and buildings of almost every type across the country. But one of the firm’s current projects has taken architects a bit farther afield.
The Denver-based firm has redesigned the master plan for the U.S. Antarctic research base McMurdo Station—the largest outpost (and biggest of three such American facilities) on the world’s southernmost continent. Commissioned in fall 2012 by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and Leidos (formerly Lockheed Martin), which manages the logistics for the NSF’s Polar Outreach Program, OZ’s scheme will dramatically improve the efficiency, sustainability, and livability of the compound for its 250 to 1,000 inhabitants. (While a skeleton crew lives there year-round, most staff work from October to March, during the Antarctic summer.)
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