The Walking Igloo, The Architectural Forum, April 1968
"This eight-legged tortoise is a glass-fiber igloo designed by Architects Cohos, DeLesalle & Evamy of Calgary, Alberta, and manufactured there. It weights all of 480 lbs., which comes to 2/3 lb. per cu. ft. of space enclosed. This particular model is made of 12 orangepeel-shaped sections that can be bolted together in 90 minutes to form a shelter 14 ft. in diameter and 7.5 ft. tall at the center. Other models are lengthened by the use of straight, intermediate sections; and there is a super-igloo currently going up at the North Pole that will house helicopters. It measures 76 ft. long and 17.5 ft. high, and weighs 6,000 lbs. The igloos come in bright colors, and the shells are translucent".
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