Monday, October 8, 2007

Futuristic & Fantastical Architecture



10,000Hz Legend: Air, 2001 (Detail)
Ora-Ito
1998


Toroidal Colonies
NASA Ames Research Centre
1970s


Freedom Ship
Freedom Ship Internationals Inc
2002


Idealised Reconstruction Of The Forum And Sanctuary Of Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, Italy
Andrea Palladio
1560


Competition Design For Royal Courts Of Justice, Strand, London
Alfred Waterhouse
1866
(Images from Fantasy Architecture 1500-2036
Neil Bingham, Clare Carolin, Peter Cook, Rob Wilson
Hayward Gallery Publishing, London)



Project ‘A’, Fort L’empereur, Algiers
Le Corbusier
1931


Lower Manhatten Expressway Project
Paul Rudolph
1970


Comprehensive City Project
Mike Mitchell, Dave Bourwell
1969


Tokyo Bay Project
Tenzo Tange
1960


Walking City Project
Ron Heron, Brian Harvey from Archigram
1963


(mages from 'Megastructure'
Reyner Banham
Thames and Hudson, London)



The Dome, Greenwich,
Aerial View,
Design Richard Rogers Partnership,
1998


The Millenium Tower
View From South Bank
Developer: Trafalgar House/ Kvaermer
Design: Foster & Partners
1998
(Images from 'Hayes Davidson'
HD Group)

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