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Failed Urban Design Ideas
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Many an architect has dreamed up visionary plans for city centers, but few have actually seen their designs come to fruition in a real live urban setting. And while many such unbuilt concepts are technically viable, others are wacky, fanciful or downright bizarre. These 13 retro urban design ideas for the future, from perfectly symmetrical egalitarian communities to the egotistical demands of a deranged dictator, will probably never become reality – and in many cases, we’re better off that way.
Gillette’s Metropolis
Recycled Art From Old Lottery Tickets
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Don’t we all have big dreams when we buy a lottery ticket? Even if we don’t truly believe it will be the big winner that will change our lives, we hold out some amount of hope that we’ll get lucky. But after the drawing, when the tickets turn out to be nothing more than useless slips of paper, our hopes and dreams cease to be pinned to them in any way. They become little more than garbage, mindlessly tossed into the trash can. A duo of graduates from the Rhode Island School of Design is taking those discarded dreams and turning them into life-size pieces of recycled art.
Vintage Vampire Killing Kits at Ripley’s Museums
Posted by: | CommentsVampire killing kits were a must-have for wealthy nobles traveling to Eastern Europe, during the mid 19th century, and with vampires making a comeback (at least in Hollywood), these things may still be useful.
The Retro Future is Here: Houses Beyond the Year 2000
Posted by: | CommentsThe future is here! Unfortunately, dinner is not in pill form, I have nothing that looks remotely like a hovercar, and robots are still lumbering jokes. Where are the domed cities? The jetpacks? The shimmering silver unitards? It’s endlessly entertaining to look back and see where our guesses were right, and where they went hilariously wrong. Imagine that you’re sitting in a leather armchair in front of a roaring fire, slowly puffing on your pipe, dreaming of the land of the future… where will we be in the year 2000 and beyond? Let’s take a look:
The Home of the Future
