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Ok! Yea, Let’s make this a nice place to live! Um no wait…
By the looks of this picture; PyongYang sure had a bunch of visionary architects running around a couple of years ago. I think this is actually an awe-inspiring city-scape. Too bad it ended up like this:
Welcome to the spooky Hotel PyongYang.
The building’s plan for a 105-story height was reportedly a Cold War response to the completion of the Westin Stamford Hotel in Singapore the previous year by a South Korean company, SsangYong Group. North Korean leadership envisioned the project as a channel for Western investors to step into the marketplace. A firm, the Ryugyong Hotel Investment and Management Co., was established to attract a hoped-for US$230 million in foreign investment. A representative for the North Korean government promised relaxed oversight, saying, "The foreign investors can even operate casinos, nightclubs or Japanese lounges if they want to."
Construction gone bad…
Though the basic structure was complete when construction came to a halt in 1992, the building shell sat vacant and without windows, fixtures, or fittings for 16 years. A rusting construction crane at the top assumed the role of a permanent fixture.
Even though the hotel still dominates the Pyongyang skyline, it has proven difficult to obtain information about the hotel or its future from North Korean sources. The problems associated with the hotel led some media sources to dub it "The Worst Building in the World", "Hotel of Doom" and "Phantom Hotel".[11]
Source: Wikipedia:
Alas, this futuristic hotel will never get to be finished.
You can find a lot more pictures of this lost hope of a prosperous thriving city: Hotel PyongYang
If we never invented Electricity
Hmm. What if?
We might have been stuck with pure steam and/or gasoline driven computer-like devices? Cars, airplanes, everything would use tremendous amounts of oil or hot water, gears and pneumatic pumps producing a hell of a lot of heat, gasses and fumes… What a waste, but what a cool setting! Welcome to the magical world of Steampunk!
Above –again- you can see these typical huge buildings which no future scene can lack… The sky isn’t the limit people! I know it’s engineering madness to build above 1Kilometer high; But come one humanity, if you can film how 2 protons crash at near light speed in a magnet the size of a cathedral, I’m sure we can build this as well. Anyway these buildings really remind me of that movie 1984 for some reason.
O(r)well Back to the scene…
Of course if there’s so many exhaust-gasses people will need to wear gas-masks… Please enjoy these amazing steampunk ‘very retro’-futuristic creepy photographs…
And this is just plain old absurd, but for those who can’t get enough…
Hope you liked it!
Joe Studzinski’s Paintings
Joe Studzinski sure knows how to paint what comes to my mind when I try and imagine how our cities and civilization might evolve over the next 150 years.
I stumbled on his brilliant work through Coroflot, a website which collects portfolios of some of the greatest young designers around.
I won’t distract you with more words, just enjoy the paintings and let me know how you feel about these… Just click to view the large editions.
New York after some biological warfare?
The sky has never been the limlit…
I don”t know why, but most of these futuristic images contain a lot of atmospheric haze and I love it. It really gives a sense of huge heights and distances, pollution and dirt… And of course a little bit of mystery.
Finally: Can you imagine the first people on Mars or Venus?
2 Sublime building-designs
Location: Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Or what did you expect?
This office building, called “Al Rostamini Headquarters” – to be build soon – gives every office it contains the best view possible.
It looks like such an unstable structure, but I guess the architects know what they are doing; I just wish it was even bigger, like giganthunormous. Do you remember those utopia/megapolis-style images from the 19th century? Yea, like thàt huge!
Same with this design in Cairo, Egypt actually. Give it twice or even three times the size you see on these renders and we’re talking about architecture and scenery we would find in brilliantly designed futuristic videogames like Halo 3.
These towers, called “Stone Towers” were designed by “Zaha Hadid Architects”. Cairo is a greatly expanding/growing city, and these buildings easily give home to companies, retailers and 5-star-business-hotels, and a glimpse of future architecture of course.
Damn, doesn’t that just look stunning!?
