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Ivanpah Solar Electric, Nevada

Ivanpah Solar Electric, Nevada

Stocktaking America Deserta #13: Solarworks

August 01, 2017

The bright lights are the boiler towers of Ivanpah Solar Electric, they concentrate the energy of thousands of mirrors. In the 1980s, Reyner Banham described Solar One, also in the Mojave, as 'the most beautiful powerplant in the world'.At the time, Banham envisioned the structure as an aesthetic object to be visited as another artwork in the American desert.

Tags: Ivanpah Solar Electric, Solar Powerplant, Desert, Reyner Banham, Prémio Fernando Távora, White Salts to White Sands
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