#cisterns

[highways-are-liminal-spaces]

Basilica Cistern in Istanbul, Türkiye

Taken March 2025

[stone-cold-groove]

Design for a Double Frame Cottage on Delachaise Street. New Orleans, Louisiana - circa 1874.

[the-city-in-mind]

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San Francisco’s underground water cisterns, a backup supply to fight fires in case an earthquake cuts off the water mains.

[victusinveritas]

A friend of mine got to wander around the cisterns under Istanbul early this morning and sent along these pictures.

[wiirocku]

Jeremiah 2:13 (ESV) - for My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken Me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.

[i12bent]

Ingvar Cronhammar (Dec. 17, 1947 - 2021) was a Swedish-born Danish installation artist whose work often was monumental and borrowing from an industrial aesthetics.

Here he plays with streaming light and water into the cisterns under Copenhagen...

Ingvar Cronhammar: Installation view, H, Cisternerne, 2015, Copenhagen, Denmark

[mothmiso]

Thaïlande (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) by Vorachith Thanane

[ancientstuff]

Late Roman cisterns unearthed in Metropolis

Incredible find. They are almost completely intact. And I love the idea of a Roman city called Metropolis. Awesome.