Posts Tagged ‘utopian’
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Arcosanti, designed by Italian-born architect Paolo Soleri, is an experimental architectural complex perched on the side of a gulch in the Arizona desert, about 70 miles north of Phoenix. Arcosanti was begun in 1970 as a multi-stage project, but it is not—and perhaps may never be—finished.
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Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, Arcosanti, Arizona, concrete, Cosanti, cypress, desert, Frank Lloyd Wright, hippie, human settlements, Italian, Lindisfarne, minimalist, Paolo Soleri, planned community, round windows, utopian, wood
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Friday, July 15th, 2011
I grew up with this psychedelic rocking camel, handmade in the late 60s/early 70s by B.C. artist/novelist Jim Willer. He called these “Bumpity Camels” and ours was one of a series—our cousins had one too. When we were kids it used to have a blue wooden knocker on a wire that hung inside and clip-clopped when you rocked (even though camels are silent), but the noise drove us crazy so we removed it, and so did our cousins.
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Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, bumpety camel, Bumpity Camel, camel, Canadian, children, circles, geometric, Jim Willer, kids, literature, M&S, McClelland and Stewart, neo geo, novel, psychedelia, psychedelic, rocking horse, target, toy, utopian
Posted in art, book, British Columbia, Canadian design, craft, design, DIY, Vancouver | 24 Comments »
Friday, January 1st, 2010
Thanks to @gebgdc.
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Tags: dresses, English, fashion, futuristic, hats, New Year's Day, sci fi, utopian, video
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Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
Utopian soviet architecture, futuristic and sci-fi, photographed by Frederic Chaubin, editor of French magazine Citizen K. Interview and photos from Ping Mag. The architect who designed the building below was influenced by a sketch of an imaginary city drawn by a Russian artist. “Roads Ministry” (Tbilisi, Georgia, 1975).
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Tags: 1960s, 1970s, 60s, 70s, architecture, brutalist, building, Frederic Chaubin, monumental, sci fi, Soviet, utopian
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Friday, July 10th, 2009
It shouldn’t be that difficult; it comes apart. The owner residents of Tokyo’s famous Nakagin Capsule Tower have voted to demolish it and rebuild a “modern” tower on the same location, which is now a valuable property adjacent to the Ginza district. See the recent article by architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff in the NYT and an interesting post on pingmag.
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Tags: apartment, architect, architecture, bachelor, brutalism, building, capsule, Capsule Tower, concrete, container architecture, Corbusier-inspired, demolition, favourite, futurist, greed, I volunteer to decorate it., Japan, Japanese Metabolism, Kurokawa Kishō, modern, modernist, modular, Nakagin, Nakagin Capsule Tower, property values, round windows, salarymen, space age, tiny Japanese apartments, utopian, Vancouver
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Sunday, June 28th, 2009
From the standpoint of 1970, this is apparently how “1980” was going to look. Actually, this vision wasn’t that far off, not as far off as Kubrick’s 1968 vision of what the year 2001 would look like. Above, a “think shell” from the total modular interior design concept known as “Home 1980.” IKEA needs to steal this idea.
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Tags: casters, chemical companies, corporate, decor, design, furniture, futurist, futuristic, Home 1980, interior, modular, movable, office, petrochemical, plastic, room, short-lived, space age, storage, think shell, utopian
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