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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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Jacque Fresco concept of the future
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Impressive short film by Erik Wernquist, narrated by Carl Sagan
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celestia by jonas de ro
Sparrow Volume 0: Ashley Wood Sketches and Ideas
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Karel Prager | Experimental residential development “City over City”, 1973-75.
(…) using bridge structures to grow the city into a third dimension instead of its growth out into the surrounding areas. Convertible units – e.g. flats, administration, culture or sport – that were possible to meet spatial requests and needs of residents represented a flexible part of the construction.” Via 1
Photo by Tomáš Souček.
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My favorite image from the ApluD exhibit “Los Angeles, Neverbuilt”
Frank Lloyd Wright’s proposal for Doheny Estates.
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#ARCHITECTURE #RENDERINGS
New York City | floating observation deck over Grand Central Terminal | SOM
while Foster + Partners think simply increasing capacity is the way to improve New York’s Grand Central Terminal, architecture firm SOM has proposed adding a floating observation deck that slides up and down the sides of two new skyscrapers
SOURCE | 11.05.2013 | 17.56
http://www.dezeen.com/2012/10/23/som-promotes-floating-observation-deck-over-grand-central-terminal/
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Proposal to dam the Gibraltar and lower the sea level of the Mediterranian by 200 metres by Hermann Soergel (1885-1952), a Bauhaus-trained architect
(via Ptak Science Books)
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Kisho Kurokawa, Floating City, Kasimigaura, 1961
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Awesome photoshop contest!!!! 8 random images ‘shopped into craziness:
“Architecture in the Age of OMG
Last month we invited you to make the most provocative images possible using the images (below) and redefine the architectural content or insert architecture of your own. We were blown away by your responses, sometimes a little confused and a few times scared, but amazed all the same! Since there were so many fascinating entries our jury even decided to give out a few awards of their own!
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The above image is by Superstudio who were a firm that was founded in Florence in 1966 - they’re done a whole heap of stuff, but it’s probably the renderings of their megastructures that are the most recognisable. While the megastructures were unsurprisingly never built, they did manage to design these tables, which are essentially just smaller versions of the same design intent, and are quite cool. I would like to own one, or at least build by own inferior version.
Some other things that I’ve found interesting in the last few hours is a TED talk by Ken Robinson, who thinks Schools Kill Creativity, and to be fair - he’s got quite a good point. Admittedly, it’s been banging around TED for 4 years now, so chances are you’ve watched it - in which case, watch this far more recent one by Lewis Pugh who is one truly mad (though passionate) bastard.
Digging in the dirt is a tumblr with a nice looking theme and where I found the aforementioned TED talk in amongst a interesting smattering of this and that…
I also had a look around Monocle, where I saw this little clip on Polaroid film, and I know how much you all love Polaroids - so check that out.
I also came across a fantastic short film directed by Dan Brown (no, not that Dan Brown) called Your Lucky Day, which revolves around a winning lottery ticket in a convenience store and could be seen as a study in convergence theory. - either way, 15 minutes very well spent.
Also keep an eye on the sporadic postings over at Things Magazine which has directly influenced the format of this link laden post.
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Yona Friedman, Spatial City collage
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Jetsons-like video made by Disneyland in the 1950’s … love the graphics and ideas they had are fun to watch…
as each idea emerged i started to notice how everyone was transported…no one was walking…so i began to wonder where the obese people were…
also where they were planning on getting all that energy … and where they planned on dumping it…
i get it…the idea was to make things easier… now we’re finding it’s harder to clean up
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How Popular science, in 1925, thought the world was going to be like in 1950
Submitted by beesscareme
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