In the 1970s space colonies were considered to be a viable alternative to a life restricted to planet Earth. The design of cylindrical space colonies, starting with Werner van Braun's 1954 "Marsprojekt series" and taken to the next step 2 decades later by Gerard O'Neill,...
Yes, it's cheesy, but this theme park accomplished a lot and brought a world of information to a very diverse audience. Even though it's not really Walt Disney's exact plan of what it was supposed to be, it still is mighty ambitious and imaginative.
EPCOT aka Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow
http://www.ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=w_davis
In this stunning talk, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world's indigenous cultures, many of which are disappearing, as ancestral land is lost and languages die. (50 percent of the world's 6000 languages are no longer...
From rshostak 21
ARCHITECTURE
Frank Gehry
1 Gehry's Santa Monica Residence
2 Sketch of the...
From uclaluca
http://www.random-international.com/display/ShowGallery?moduleId=595659&galleryId=41518
Semiconductor have created a molecular web that is generated by Double Adaptor's live soundtrack. Using custom-made scripting, the melodies and rhythms spawn a nano scale environment that shifts and contorts to the audio resonance. Layers of energetic...
