fantasy
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“Illustrations for Gefest Insurance Company Annual Calendar. The task was to show how the real locations and objects of our time will develop and integrate into the world of future.”
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celestia by jonas de ro
Sparrow Volume 0: Ashley Wood Sketches and Ideas
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Dylan Cole Studios / Halo
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Dylan Cole Studios / Halo
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The 12th Colony by Stefan Morrell.
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“Wright’s design of 1923 responded to the expansive qualities of the Doheny site, respected local vegetation, and accommodated the automobile in both spatial and architectural terms. It was nothing less than an idealized prototype for what American suburbs might have become, but did not. As surviving perspectives demonstrate, buildings, roadways, and plantings are conceived as an integrated totality; it is the vision of the suburb as one structure.
Roadways depicted as powerful visual elements appear to terrace the hills, providing a unifying pattern. Developed in the manner of viaducts, they bridge intermediate ravines on gracefully arcuated spans or massively embank the steep terrain. Walls defining these roadways extend to become walls of the houses themselves.
Numerous roof terraces broaden the horizontal planes of the connecting roads, amplifying an architectural image of vast scale. Both roads and houses are clustered in ways that structure the site by selectively shaping and retaining the natural slopes. The more fragile segments of valleys and the steepest slopes are left largely untouched, but are joined in the full composition to achieve an effect of extraordinary unity.”
-LOC
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Visual Development for Tangled
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Retro-Future: Glorious Urbanism via DRB
See that gleaming Metropolis on the horizon? - these majestic towers were something to aspire to, to dream about, to shape your life accordingly in an effort to reach it, and finally attain it as the ultimate reward… Such ideas were popular during the infant days of futurism in the 1920s, then in fantastic literature on both sides of the Atlantic during the Golden Age of Wonder in the 1930s, until finally, these grandiose visions fizzled out sometime in the 1980s together with the general decline of futurism.
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Lunar Love
This ultra-deluxe bachelor pad will provide a deliciously luxurious setting for all your forbidden love trysts. - Via
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Abandoned Star Wars Set in the Desert
“No More Stars” showcases the backdrop of Luke Skywalker’s home on the fictional desert planet Tatooine.
what?? they just left it in the desert? can we please go there???
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July 11-September 15, 2013 at the A+D LA
“Never Built: Los Angeles will explore the “what if” Los Angeles. A thorough compendium of projects that only saw the drawing board, the exhibition asks: Why is Los Angeles a hotbed of great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation?
Co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin and designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects, the show looks at visionary works that had the greatest potential to reshape the city, from buildings to master plans, parks to follies and transportation proposals any of which could have transformed both the physical reality and the collective perception of the metropolis. The stories surrounding these projects shed light on a reluctant city whose institutions and infrastructure have often undermined inventive, challenging urban schemes.
Many of these schemes—promoting a denser, more vibrant city—still have relevance today, and many could inspire future projects. The projects beg the question: Why were they never built?
The show will contain dozens of illustrations exploring the visceral (and sometimes misleading) power of architectural ideas conveyed through renderings, blueprints, models, and the lost art of hand drawing. Through these images, and accompanying narratives, the city is interpreted in a new light, with discarded projects understood as art. Never Built probes these schemes, setting the stage for a renewed interest in visionary projects in Los Angeles.”
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Hall of the Dragon Mist by ~Suirebit :)
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Who wouldn’t want to live here!
Architecture & Fantasy | Alan Lee | 1103
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Architecture & Fantasy | John Harris | 913
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Detail of the antique city in the background of the Louvre St. Sebastian by Mantegna.
“The classical ruins are typical of Mantegna’s pictures. The cliffy path, the gravel and the caves are references to the difficulties of reaching the Celestial Jerusalem, the fortified city depicted on the top of the mountain, at the upper right corner of the picture, and described in Chapter 21 of John’s Book of Revelation.”
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Concept Art by Stefan Morrell