London Underground construction
(vía El metro de Londres celebra su 150º aniversario | Fotogalería | Cultura | EL PAÍS)
Everyone in this apartment block seems to have done their washing on the same day and it’s created this surprisingly striking image as the sheets and clothes dry outside at the Hubei University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
A half-demolished apartment building stands in the middle of a newly-built road thanks to a Chinese couple that refused to move in Wenling, Zhejiang province, on November 22, 2012.
RESISTANCE
(vía The House in the Middle of the Street - In Focus - The Atlantic)
Low income housing spreads into the hills on the outskirts of Kabul, photographed on October 4, 2012. According to the World Bank more than a third of the population of Afghanistan lives below the poverty line, and more than half are vulnerable and at serious risk of falling into poverty. (Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images)
An invisible frontier _ Nouakchott, Mauritanie
Photography: Steve McCurry National Geographic August 1987
Screaming Sweden (por owocefilmowe)
Movie: Futurama 1939 New York World’s Fair “To New Horizons” 1940 General Motors 23min
‘Definitive document of pre-World War II futuristic utopian thinking, as envisioned by General Motors. Documents the “Futurama” exhibit in GM’s “Highways and Horizons” pavilion at the World’s Fair, which looks ahead to the “wonder world of 1960.”’
Futurama was an exhibit/ride at the 1939 New York World’s Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes that tried to show the world 20 years into the future (1959—1960). Sponsored by the General Motors Corporation, the installation was characterized by its automated highways and vast suburbs. Compared to other “visions of the future,” Bel Geddes’ was rather achievable—the most advanced technology posited was the automated highway system, of which General Motors built a working prototype by 1960….
(vía tashula)
Posted Noviembre 11, 2012 at 11:17pm in New York history landscape city future model architecture
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