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7 Houses of the Future - According to the Past
https://www.archdaily.com/915464/7-h...ng-to-the-past Rolling Houses (1930s) - The innovation was intended to make the remote construction and delivery of new homes more straightforward. https://i.imgur.com/ZyivM5W.jpg?1 Space Houses (1960s) - Puerto Rican cover artist Alex Schomburg’s free-floating snow globes come complete with rooftop chutes for launching space hatchbacks out into the great unknown. https://i.imgur.com/41pnAzw.jpg?1 Glass Houses (1920s) - Utilizing a special new kind of glass designed to admit the ultraviolet, ahem, “health rays” of the sun, the Vitaglass house would offer a year-round summer thanks to the addition of mercury arc lamps for gloomy days. https://i.imgur.com/2yVuRau.jpg?1 Moving Houses (1920s) - This utopian vision posits a very social mobile home version of architectural tendencies that we’re actually seeing today. Its rooftop garden, for example, might offset the carbon footprint of the vehicle, easing the conscience of the steam-powered digital nomads onboard. https://i.imgur.com/7Qbvy86.jpg?1 Underwater Houses (1960s) - While the rest of the world was staring at the stars, GM noted that we still have whole oceans that remain unconquered. https://i.imgur.com/78ZLHOi.jpg?1 Lightweight Houses (1940s) - The January 1942 authors of “This Unfinished World” offered a vision that gets closer every day: using super-light “aerogel” to create buildings that are earthquake-resistant and require less resources to build. https://i.imgur.com/muN96WN.jpg?1 Dome Houses (1950s) - The rotating dome would allow homeowners to make efficient use of the sun’s energy. https://i.imgur.com/8PEnN4W.jpg?1 |
Is that Willy Wonka driving the one home?
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Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future --- If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor, the late physicist Gerard O’Neill.
https://www.citylab.com/perspective/...lonies/589294/ An artist's rendering of a space habitat that Jeff Bezos presented onstage for Blue Origin. https://cdn.citylab.com/media/img/ci...mod=1557697013 Florence in space, with the Forbidden City visible in the distance. (Blue Origin) https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m.../0c3697e68.jpg A rendering of a toroidal (donut-shaped) space colony made by Rick Guidice for NASA in the 1970s. https://cdn.theatlantic.com/assets/m.../9119cb410.jpg |
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They will primarily be conducting low g manufacturing (some stuff is better built in 0g) Tourism, mining of asteroids and other rocky bodies, R&D, and possibly even energy (if we can find a way to transfer down to earth effectively) People dont like nuclear and building a solar aray large enough is tough on earth but in space....... The commercialization of space seems like science fiction but it will be happening A LOT sooner than people realize. |
This unignorable tower shows just how much people are struggling in Toronto
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Hayri Atak Proposes Striking, Sinuous 'Sarcostyle Tower' For The New York Skyline
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Does Amazon’s ‘Helix’ Reflect the Shape of the Post-Pandemic Office?
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Looks like a poop emoji.
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This weird doughnut skyscraper is the future of architecture
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1,760 Acres. That’s How Much More of Manhattan We Need.
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^ one freaking mile of new track & station on the subway is already a couple bill and a half -- can you imagine the time and costs to do all that, even if everyone wanted to?
and look, they still didnt even triboro rx lol! |
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I mean the 2nd avenue subway has to go through already existing structures and is very complicated, this would be built in an area that is relatively untouched. |
^ i'm pretty sure ridiculous cost is by far the main factor regardless of anyone's feelings about it!
and speaking of ridiculous -- cleveland euclid avenue visionary 1930 wilber henry adams https://tile.loc.gov/storage-service...800/00891v.jpg https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6IEz6tW...jpg&name=large |
The payoff for the cost could be more property taxes and plenty of other stuff.
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^ more than that, i think a big part of the reasoning for the idea was sparked by the current efforts on the les waterfront to mitigate global warming related flooding. i think this project placement could help ??? the enormity seems ridiculous vs just putting up a few mounds along the waterfront downtown. maybe they would not need eventual harbor flood gates with this extension if they do it right? i dk.
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