Tall Storeys Collaborative

This is a Tall Storey about a strange but wonderful collaboration between architecture & science.

The Einstein Tower is located in Potsdam, Germany - and was designed by Erich Mendelsohn in 1922 as a solar observatory to test Einstein’s theory - measuring the gravitational red shift of light from the sun. What I love about it is not just the science, but the ambition. Someone decided that a revolutionary idea deserved a revolutionary building.



Culture, Physics, Astrophysics, Astronomy, Mythology

This is a Tall Storey about how we taught sand to dream.

We think of sand as something ordinary. Something that slips into our shoes and gets brushed away without a second thought. But this quiet, granular earth is the foundation of almost everything we’ve built.

From lenses that let us see the cosmos… to microscopes that revealed invisible worlds. From silicon chips that compute our thoughts… to fiber optics that carry our voices across oceans.

We melted it. Refined it. Etched it.
And somewhere along the way, we turned it into memory. Into signal. Into intelligence.

Civilization, it turns out, is written in sand.



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