(source: bostworld – Flickr).
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Depthscraper 0
“Want a skyscraper but suffer from a really bad case of acrophobia? Then Japan’s Depthscraper from 1931 is the ticket. It’s allegedly “earthquake proof” and even has real sunlight beamed in courtesy of a dirty great mirror”. (source: davidzondy).
Tagged: concept, depthscraper, japan
Richard Neutra – Future Architecture 0
“Richard Neutra (1892-1970) helped to introduce the Internationalist style of architecture to America, which puts him right up there with the chaps who brought over smallpox, fire water, and really tight Italian shoes”. “His vision of a future city is that of Le Corbusier’s. Given that modern architects had thrown out just about everything developed [...]
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Tatsuyuki Tanaka’s Future City 0
“Tanaka was one of the key animators on Akira and was responsible for, among other things, the animation of Testuo’s rapidly mutating arm. His still illustrations draw from similar imagery, telling stories of young people set in a crumbling future, and filled with grotesque experiments and bizarre creatures. The images here come from Tanaka’s art [...]
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Tagged: akira, cannabis works, future city, tanaka, tatsuyuki, technology
Concepts of High Houses 0
“The High Houses are proposed as part of the reconstruction of Sarajevo after the siege of the city that lasted from 1992 though late 1995. Their site is the badly damaged “old tobacco factory” in the Marijn dvor section near the city center. The concept of the project is simple. The houses rise up high [...]
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Tagged: post-contruction, post-siege, reconstruction, sarajevo
Power Station Designs – 1964 0
“In 1964 United States Steel called upon the nation’s electric utility companies to reconsider the current look of our power stations and transmission towers to be both functional and beautiful. Two years later, Henry Dreyfuss and Associates were commissioned to investigate possible design alternatives, and I believe they were documented in a book entitled “Power [...]
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Tagged: 1964, design, electric utility, future, power, power station, steel
Le Corbusier’s Paris 0
Le Corbusier: Plan Voisin in Paris. “Since 1922 (for the past 42 years) I have continued to work, in general and in detail, on the problem of Paris. Everything has been made public. The City Council has never contacted me. It calls me ‘Barbarian’!” (Le Corbusier’s writings, p. 207) Source: NYU
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Project Cybersyn 0
“Project Cybersyn is an early computer network developed in Chile during the socialist presidency of Salvador Allende (1970–1973) to regulate the growing social property area and manage the transition of Chile’s economy from capitalism to socialism. Under the guidance of British cybernetician Stafford Beer, often lauded as the ‘father of management cybernetics’, an interdisciplinary Chilean [...]
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Tagged: chilie
A City in the Cloud: Living PlanIT Redefines Cities as Software 0
Physicist and former Sante Fe Institute president Geoffrey West practically stole the show with his talk on urban metabolisms. Cities are like organisms, he explained, except they grow much faster and much bigger than anything living – in fact, there appears to be no upper limit to their size or propensity for innovation… or disaster. [...]
1960 World Book Encyclopedia 0
When I was little I obsessed over the article about the Statue of Liberty in the 1960 World Book Encyclopedia that my parents kept on the bottom shelf of the bookshelf. It was this picture in particular that I stared at the most. I’m much more interested in the beginnings of things than of the [...]
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