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Abandoned Star Wars Set in the Desert

“No More Stars” showcases the backdrop of Luke Skywalker’s home on the fictional desert planet Tatooine.

what?? they just left it in the desert? can we please go there???

posted on 13.05.17

July 11-September 15, 2013 at the A+D LA

“Never Built: Los Angeles will explore the “what if” Los Angeles. A thorough compendium of projects that only saw the drawing board, the exhibition asks: Why is Los Angeles a hotbed of great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation?

Co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin and designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects, the show looks at visionary works that had the greatest potential to reshape the city, from buildings to master plans, parks to follies and transportation proposals any of which could have transformed both the physical reality and the collective perception of the metropolis. The stories surrounding these projects shed light on a reluctant city whose institutions and infrastructure have often undermined inventive, challenging urban schemes.

Many of these schemes—promoting a denser, more vibrant city—still have relevance today, and many could inspire future projects. The projects beg the question: Why were they never built?

The show will contain dozens of illustrations exploring the visceral (and sometimes misleading) power of architectural ideas conveyed through renderings, blueprints, models, and the lost art of hand drawing. Through these images, and accompanying narratives, the city is interpreted in a new light, with discarded projects understood as art. Never Built probes these schemes, setting the stage for a renewed interest in visionary projects in Los Angeles.”

posted on 13.01.23

magicalnaturetour:

Hall of the Dragon Mist by ~Suirebit :)

posted on 13.01.14

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acidadebranca:

i-amar-prestar-aen:

Who wouldn’t want to live here!

Architecture & Fantasy | Alan Lee | 1103

posted on 12.11.23

acidadebranca:

Architecture & Fantasy | John Harris | 913

(Source: moonzerotwo)

posted on 12.11.19

process-vision:

Tatsushi Morimoto

posted on 12.08.05

booksnbuildings:

Detail of the antique city in the background of the Louvre St. Sebastian by Mantegna.

“The classical ruins are typical of Mantegna’s pictures. The cliffy path, the gravel and the caves are references to the difficulties of reaching the Celestial Jerusalem, the fortified city depicted on the top of the mountain, at the upper right corner of the picture, and described in Chapter 21 of John’s Book of Revelation.”

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posted on 12.08.02

metropolisoftomorrow:

Concept Art by Stefan Morrell

posted on 12.06.01

unknownskywalker:

COLONIE R PORT - 2100 by Bastien Grivet

posted on 12.04.21

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metropolisoftomorrow:

The floating city of Stratos from Star Trek remastered episode “Cloud Minders”

posted on 12.01.30

The town of Picher, Oklahoma, offers a range of spatial conditions that support speculative design projects.

On the most basic level, the town is “at risk of cave-ins” due to the “abandoned mines beneath the city”; this means that “trucks traveling along the highway are diverted around Picher for fear that the hollowed-out mines under the town would cause the streets to collapse under the weight of big rigs.”

Further, the now-defunct lead mines generated so much waste that the town is now surrounded by massive artificial mountain ranges of carcinogenic material called “chat,” as the creation of voids beneath the streets generated surreal landforms on the city’s edge. Third, a great deal of the town was destroyed in a tornado in 2008—and that’s all in addition to the fact that the town is under voluntary buy-out for the U.S. government, as it is considered too dangerous to live there.