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Pink Ten­ta­cle posted a col­lec­tion of pho­tos doc­u­ment­ing Japan’s ‘tetra­pod beaches.’  It’s a curi­ous engi­neer­ing of the envi­ron­ment that over­whelms the nat­ural beauty of the coast with a Utopian repet­i­tive­ness of form.  Yet, the form, scale and pat­terns of the tetrapods some­how come together to cre­ate a new, if utterly urban aes­thetic.  I once saw some sim­i­lar struc­tures in the West­ern Korean town of Mallipo, but on a much smaller scale.

Pho­tos: Tetra­pod beaches of Japan ::: Pink Ten­ta­cle.

More images of tetra­pod beaches from Flickr.

photo credit: +fat­man+