bunkhouses

From munitions factories to worker housing, from camouflage to propaganda graphics, from the brutalizing bunkhouses at Auschwitz to the seating at Nuremberg that arranged war criminals face to face with their victims and judges, architects had a hand in carrying out an array of objectives both worthy and horrific.

Building for War Julie V. Iovine 2011

From munitions factories to worker housing, from camouflage to propaganda graphics, from the brutalizing bunkhouses at Auschwitz to the seating at Nuremberg that arranged war criminals face to face with their victims and judges, architects had a hand in carrying out an array of objectives both worthy and horrific.

Building for War Julie V. Iovine 2011

A cluster of seventy-five-bed bunkhouses and a second mess hall with three hundred seats stood at River Camp, the spot two miles upstream of the dam site from which the work barges departed.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Each knew how to reach his own best workers, so that every time Crowe began a job there would be a hundred trained laborers on the site, ready to start alongside him, their first assignment often the construction of their own bunkhouses.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Each knew how to reach his own best workers, so that every time Crowe began a job there would be a hundred trained laborers on the site, ready to start alongside him, their first assignment often the construction of their own bunkhouses.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Further along were the precariously anchored bunkhouses, mess tents, and machine shops of what was now known as River Camp.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

A cluster of seventy-five-bed bunkhouses and a second mess hall with three hundred seats stood at River Camp, the spot two miles upstream of the dam site from which the work barges departed.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

The bunkhouses that Crowe claimed were only hours from being equipped with fans, lights, and coolers had not yet been wired for electricity, and the appliances themselves had not been delivered.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Further along were the precariously anchored bunkhouses, mess tents, and machine shops of what was now known as River Camp.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

The camp was open to the beating sun yet shut off from cross-breezes, an airless, stupefying place where the stench of the latrines settled in the bunkhouses like a miasma.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010