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So Many Amazing Control Rooms

From the Control Rooms group on Flickr. 🤩 So many little details in all of these photos to pore over.

See also Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green, The User Experience Design of Lego Interface Panels, Inside NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Combat Center (c. 1966), and Lots and Lots of Control Panels.

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David Orme

This one's a beauty - looks like a bunker from the outside but the control room is amazing:

https://www.darbiansphotography.com/woking-electrical-control-room-urbex

CW Moss

That control room with stained glass windows created a new yearning in my soul. I think those two things together are my ideal office.

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Tra H

This finally settles the "Would you watch a remake of the 2019 HBO Drama Chernobyl if it was directed by Wes Anderson?" debate.

The answer is yes.

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