Drawing of a cross-section of Kowloon Walled City before its destruction in 1993.
Drawing of a cross-section of Kowloon Walled City before its…
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La Porte Monumentale designed by René Binet, eastern entrance…
La Porte Monumentale designed by René Binet, eastern entrance to the Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900.
Construction du Temple de Jérusalem Jean Fouquet, ca. 1470.
From the October 1922 issue of Science and Invention magazine:…
From the October 1922 issue of Science and Invention magazine: famous science-fiction pioneer Hugo Gernsback’s proposed 1,000 foot tall monument to electricity. Another early SF pioneer, Frank R. Paul, created the illustration.
Four years later Gernsback would launch the first science fiction magazine, Amazing Stories.
(via PaleoFuture, who has a post with quotes from Gernsback’s article)
R. Buckminster Fuller
“Rue Future”, illustration by Eugène Hénard for his…
“Rue Future”, illustration by Eugène Hénard for his article “The Cities of the Future”, American City, January, 1911.
More available at the Cornell Library web site, and at Ptak.
Vision of a flying city by Russian constructivist architect Georgy Krutikov, 1928.
The Cyclorama Building at the Gettysburg Military National Park, possibly soon to be torn down. Cycl
Architects Gramazio and Kohler, partnered with Raffaello D’Andrea, have created a swarm of autonomou
Architects Gramazio and Kohler, partnered with Raffaello D’Andrea, have created a swarm of autonomous flying robots that will “lift, transport, and assemble” 1,500 polystyrene bricks into a tower structure 3.5 meters wide. The installation is titled “Flight Assembled Architecture”.
More information at Dezeen; also a video of the ‘bots in action can be found here.
Architectural people by Sean Edward Whelan, via Colossal.
Architectural people by Sean Edward Whelan, via Colossal.