megashed

A massive store, warehouse, or distribution center, especially one with a plain or unattractive exterior.

Outside the business pages, it will probably be Tesco the bulldozer that makes headlines, as it is lambasted for supposedly demolishing traditional high streets and replacing small shops with its category-killing megasheds.

Here, theboxtank (Emily Andersen, Geoff DeOld and Corey Hoelker), a collaborative blog about big-box urbanism and retail, considers the latent architectural possibilities of the now global phenomenon of space enclosing industrially clad megasheds - the potential of which was never underestimated by Cedric Price or Martin Pawley.

An extremely large watershed.

The Umpqua Basin was selected as a result of subdividing the Coast Range into six megasheds (watersheds of 1-2 million acres each), the largest areas that could be modeled given the computer hardware (2 gigabytes of RAM) available at the time.

How has ramping up to the scale of whole watersheds, and so-called megasheds, affected the way scientists think about and execute their crucial experimental work?