Operation Saipan-an underwater heritage trail By www.archaeology.org

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Archaeology of World War II - Video - Operation Saipan
An underwater trail of the submerged archaeological evidence of the Battle of Saipan, Marianas Islands, one of the turning points in the Pacific theater of operations

This video was shot in June 2010 during archaeological investigations off the island of Saipan carried out by Ships of Discovery and Flinders University under an American Battlefield Protection Program Grant. Maritime archaeologist and project leader Jennifer McKinnon has worked to survey a 12-mile-stretch of Saipan's lagoons. This video tour shows vehicles, aircraft, and weapons submerged since the war.

These sites are being investigated and documented in an effort to understand how they were involved in the Battle of Saipan. Another facet of the research project is to develop a public outreach program by incorporating several of the more frequently visited sites into an underwater heritage trail for snorkelers and divers to visit.

Celtic Museum, Glauberg, Germany, by kadawittfeld architektur

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kadawittfeldarchitektur is a European architectural office, operating out of Aachen, Germany, with its founding office in Graz, Austria. Their projects move in scale between architecture, city building, interiors, and urban studies to create meaning within a context of public buildings. Theirs is a spatial strategy translated into built form. The building itself is understood as a functional object, designed to serve the user and spectator alike, from inside and out. The office tests reality: building and translating the meaning of tradition into appropriate contemporary spatial structures.

The Celtic Museum is a clearly contoured and distinct volume, blending in with the surrounding landscape. Partly inserted into the slope, it projects itself towards the burial mound. Its vital function as an element of the landscape, the museum building amplifies the burial mound’s leading role. The construction of the modern museum building started in the summer of 2008. Corten steel plates clad the building, which pushes out from the slope of the Glauberg like a kind of telescope peeking out into the past.

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