The Coldscape Despite the efforts of industry bodies, government agencies, and industrial archaeologists, this vast, distributed artificial winter that has reshaped our entire food system remains, for the most part, unmapped. What’s more, the varied forms of these cold spaces remain a mystery to most. This guide provides an introduction to a handful of the strange spatial typologies found within the “cold chain,” that linked network of atmospheric regulation on which our entire way of life depends.
 (Photo: Kraft’s subterranean “cheese” cave, Springfield, Missouri/Christoph Morlinghaus) This salute to refrigeration is amazing. Read the whole thing at Cabinet 

The Coldscape

Despite the efforts of industry bodies, government agencies, and industrial archaeologists, this vast, distributed artificial winter that has reshaped our entire food system remains, for the most part, unmapped. What’s more, the varied forms of these cold spaces remain a mystery to most. This guide provides an introduction to a handful of the strange spatial typologies found within the “cold chain,” that linked network of atmospheric regulation on which our entire way of life depends.


(Photo: Kraft’s subterranean “cheese” cave, Springfield, Missouri/Christoph Morlinghaus)

This salute to refrigeration is amazing. Read the whole thing at Cabinet 

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