• Death on the Nile

   

  The facetted dome of this sham grotto, the Serapaeum, once resounded to the rushing of artificial torrents, gurgling fountains and cascades: a sensuous interior water world surrounding a podium where the Emperor Hadrian and his friends once reclined to dine. Called a triclinium nymphaeum (literally: “dining room as fountain”) it is part of the villa the emperor built at Tivoli, outside Rome between 118-134 CE – as a vast memory palace, with many of its buildings representing places in the Roman Empire he’d visited. This sumptuous pleasure dome, fronted by a canal, had very personal significance for the Emperor. It was associated with the River Nile, where his lover Antinous had drowned. And among the sculptures of a crocodile and pseudo-Egyptian statues excavated, one of Antinous was found, dressed as the figure of Osiris, God of the Upper Nile, who dies and is reborn. So hope, not just water, sprang eternal here too. I (rgw)

  Giambattista Piranesi, “Remains of the Temple of the God Canopus in Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli” (from “Views of Rome”). (Image courtesy Giorgio Cini Foundation, Venice, the Cabinet of Drawings and Prints)

• COVER

  COVER

  Cover

  Water
• Table of contents

  Table of contents
• EDITORIAL

  EDITORIAL

  Editorial

  Water
• ESSAY

  ESSAY

  Adriaport

  Czechoslovakia's 1970s plan to build a tunnel to the sea

  Text: Rob Wilson
• FOUND

  FOUND

  China on Ice

  Harbin Ice and Snow Festival
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  The Trouble with Water I

  By Sagel & Krzykowski
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Tropical Island

  A Big Brandenburg Oasis

  Text: Max Borka
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Dam it All

  Hoover Dam and beyond
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Pink Pipe Dream

  Ludwig Leo‘s Umlauftank in Berlin

  Text: Gregor Harbusch, Jack Burnett-Stuart
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  The Trouble with Water II

  By Sagel & Krzykowski
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Oh Well

  Indian Stepwells

  Text: Rob Wilson
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Holding Back the Waves

  Climate engineer Matthias Schuler achieves active solutions through passive measures

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Lonely as a Cloud

  Leandro Ehrlich's Cloud Collection
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Stream Lines

  Repurposed Dutch water defenses

  Text: Anneke Bokern
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Death on the Nile

  Watery pleasure dome at Hadrian's Villa
• INTERVIEW

  INTERVIEW

  Underwater Love

  Chris Bosse on water, nature and Frei Otto

  Text: Sophie Lovell
• PHOTO ESSAY

  PHOTO ESSAY

  The Trouble with Water III

  By Sagel & Krzykowski
• FOUND

  FOUND

  Ooho

  The edible water bottle
• CASE STUDY

  CASE STUDY

  Kraftwerk Artwork

  Hydroelectric power station in Germany

  Text: Leigh Theodore Vlassis
• BOOKMARKED

  BOOKMARKED

  Bookmarked

  The Drinkable Book

  Text: Max Borka
• KLAUSTOON

  KLAUSTOON

  Klaustoon

  XV. Underwater Zoom* ('e la nave va...')

  Text: Klaus
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  NEXT

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