Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future
Hallucinatory Architecture of the Future
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Some examples of the early pulp illustration (still unmatched in their retro-futuristic grandeur) - New York in 2032: From 1931 http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/S4...w4rgtewarw.jpg http://lh4.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/S4...345tew4tew.jpg http://lh3.ggpht.com/_hVOW2U7K4-M/S4...6ur5tes5re.jpg San Francisco http://www.vhxn.com/hydro-net-projec...-city-in-2018/ Quote:
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San Francisco has the highest consumption per capita of LSD in the USA.
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That Depth Scraper is a pretty interesting concept, to make the best use of city space by building down as well as up.
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I don't know whether this can be classified as hallucinatory or not, but this is what one illustrator in 1910 thought Downtown Saint Louis would look like in 2010:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2592/...7207d010_o.jpg Source Missed it by that much. -RBB |
these people are definitely halucinating if they thing this will be done in 8yrs and allow sf's skyline to look so homogenous.
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^That St. Louis one is pretty wild, and that wonky observational tower looks anachronistic.
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Trippy and a half.
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the funny thing is, some of these then-futurist masonry structures with sullivanesque/art deco/whatever detailing is too intricate for current labor constraints.
apart from the hordes of flying cars/planes/hovercraft, at least these designs depicted vibrant downtowns. |
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:previous: That 'tower' in the background resembles something that might actually get built. Imagine how weird Shanghai's Pearl Tower would have looked to people a century ago.
And the buses/trams don't look that far off of today's models. |
^Not that that vision was ever meant to be taken seriously, I think you'd really have to stretch things to call it realistic.
This is the modern outcome of St. Louis' Olive Street. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/1730202.jpg Source: http://www.panoramio.com/photo/1730202 No airships (nor weird airship-docking tower in the background), no trams, no packed sidewalks, no carless culture, no solid walls of 40+ story brick-clad buildings. No monumental lions. |
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this would be a nice addition to portland. i think it would get lost in the sea of buidling in nyc.
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As always, the ersatz art-deco-futurish New York illustrations take the cake. I love the likewise scenes from Metropolis (1925?)
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There's no reason why we can't have flying croissant-airships nowadays. Its not like we lack the technology to make it work...
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Oh yeah, do the same to New York. That would be cool. |
Dear everyone making these things up: Property rights aren't going to change in the future. Buildings will still be confined to the private land in between public streets. The block structure of existing cities isn't going to change. Please take this into consideration when drawing up your schemes.
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With one of the New York renderings they seemed to have the streets going through the block buildings like tunnels.
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1.what a loooovely buildings.. why not building some...
2.mthq many thanks for those impressions. 3.What boring cities we have/survive, all equally boxes-up. 4.i was born made in wrong time... really. |
Architects plan for a crowded Australia
April 9, 2010 RAY EDGAR Read More: http://www.theage.com.au/entertainme...0408-ruzz.html Quote:
The floating jellyfish cities by design firm Arup Biomimetics. http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y5-600x400.jpg A city of hyper-density: Multiplicity by John Wardle Architects and Stefano Boscutti http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y6-600x400.jpg http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y4-600x400.jpg Archipelago Squeeze. With Loop-Pool / Saturation City, McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild + Dyskors and Material Thinking http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y3-600x400.jpg 2: Suburban stack. With Loop-Pool / Saturation City, McGauran Giannini Soon (MGS), Bild + Dyskors and Material Thinking. http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y2-600x400.jpg An image from Edmund and Corrigan's self-sustaining desert city proposal, A City of Hope. http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y7-600x400.jpg The walkways of The Fear Free City proposed by Melbourne University Dean Tom Kvan’s team http://images.theage.com.au/2010/04/...y1-600x400.jpg |
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Shhh... in the architecture world, there are no such thing as safety, handicaps or daily life. :haha: I didn't know Arup had a biomimetics branch! Maybe they actually don't, since googling it only leads to this article. I guess they want to find a break as big as the opera house.
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How to be urban
Jun 1st 2010 http://www.economist.com/sites/all/t...omist-logo.gif Read More: http://www.economist.com/world/inter...ry_id=16266900 Quote:
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Ah, how the minds of one can ruin the lives of many.
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http://www.popsci.com/science/galler...-cities-future
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Hah, I love the idea of floating or orbiting cities and whatnot, but the only way that's ever gonna gonna happen is if we literally ran out of land to build on and we'll be long dead before that happens :D so... Maybe a scientific facility with a few thousand people or so, but a city of millions floating in the atmosphere or on the ocean surface and orbiting the Earth or another planet or being on the Moon. Not happening.
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Top architects offer glimpses of a 21st-century Prague
July 14, 2010 By Filip Šenk http://www.praguepost.com/img/logo.gif Read More: http://www.praguepost.com/tempo/5047...he-future.html Quote:
This is how the space looks today. http://www.praguepost.com/pictures/1...7-3075-pic.jpg The firm Sporadical proposed a platform park above a major thoroughfare in Smíchov in the mold of Manhattan's High Line Park. http://www.praguepost.com/pictures/1...7-3074-pic.jpg The Coll Coll architecture firm proposed a new streetscape in front of the National Gallery. http://www.praguepost.com/pictures/1...7-3077-pic.jpg |
I can understand why all the predictions from the 20's have airships in them. before the Hindenburg, it was THE way to travel. heck, even the empire state buildings spire was originally meant to be a mooring mast for airships! all the things about superhighways got it spot on though.... that one photo with the empire state building being dwarfed by other buildings is completely unrealistic, because of how insanely wide the buildings are. imagine standing in the middle of those buildings!!! there wouldn't be any sunlight for 100 meters in any direction!
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http://www.sadanduseless.com/wp-cont...010/06/657.jpg
I see where Cesar Pelli got his inspiration for the Transbay park. |
I like the 1925 one. I also love the spiral escalator!
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Exhibit features futuristic '50s architectural designs
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“Resort on Ocean Cliffs,” an architectural drawing by James Gardner, is on display at the Kennedy-Douglass Center for the Arts in Florence as part of the exhibit “Early Works of Architects Hurtig, Gardner and Froelich.” http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcsi...9079997&Ref=AR |
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MOTOROLA FUTURE 1961
See More: http://community.livejournal.com/ret...sm/483556.html These early 1960s paintings were done for Motorola as part of their consumer products ads series, “Fresh from Motorola... new leader in the lively art of electronics” - artist - Charles Shridde http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2611/...0d6456c6_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2631/...6cd8a0c3_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2626/...6c038d3f_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2620/...ab31735b_z.jpg http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2500/...207_z.jpg?zz=1 http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2506/...d12_z.jpg?zz=1 http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5215/...77fc3a14_z.jpg |
Not quite as far out as some of the stuff in this thread but in the 60s-70s the plan for the I-10 going through Central Phoenix was to put the freeway on 100 foot high stilts. Then to get on and off the freeway cars would have to drive around on these huge looping 'heliocoils."
Of course the renderings show parks and active pedestrian life under the freeways which just seems insane. They likely would've devolved into ugly, polluted, noisy, forgotten places. http://img691.imageshack.us/img691/6...apagohist2.jpg http://www.aaroads.com/west/arizona0...o_helicoil.jpg http://www.aaroads.com/west/arizona0...pago_model.jpg |
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