February 2010
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Strange that we actually are living in the future; when I look at Tam’s loungewear, top right, I see a bat-winged hoody and leggings.
January 2010
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September 2009
11 posts
The notion of cities condensed into a singular structure or hyperstructure, has frequented works of fiction as far back as 1899 with H.G. Wells, When the Sleeper Wakes. The concept garnered wider attention seventy years later when Architect Paolo Soleri published, Arcology: The City in the Image of Man. Massive self sustaining habitats, the pliable infrastructure and small ecological footprint of arcologies avoid the damaging, inefficient urban sprawl of today’s cities and suburbia.
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Frankly I think the thing looks hideous as a proposal for a real structure anywhere other than Calatrava’s corner of Valencia, and there is probably good reason as to why the…
