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Electric Vehicle Charging Station by Designers At Large

LB — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:52:26 +0000

Pleasingly sci-fi device which provides you with shelter while it charges your electric vehicle. This prototype from Vancouver design/architecture firm Designers At Large makes me want an electric car. From the designers:

“Electric Vehicle Rapid Charging Station shelter/enclosure designed by Designers at Large (Structural design by Paul Miskimmin of DNA) for BCHydro, Powertech Labs, and Science World is nearing completion.

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Atention People’s Faceing Northeast

LB — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:31:38 +0000

Photocopied sign found taped to telephone pole in Chinatown, a few blocks from my studio. Beautiful poster of the apocalyptic warning variety. “The dotes are the extraterrestrials ship’s.” I love how ‘dots’ is misspelled, and apostrophe is on the wrong word, but A+ on spelling ‘extraterrestrials’ correctly.

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There was a ship and it was going to crash into the mothership.

LB — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 04:11:43 +0000

Screenshot from the internet. Dialogue between man-boy and his girlfriend:

1930s Futuristic Fashion Predictions

LB — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:03:52 +0000

Thanks to @gebgdc.

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Roxy Music, 1972

LB — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:35:13 +0000

Roxy Music, 1972. Paul Thompson, drummer, in the caveman shirt; Bryan Ferry in black; Brian Eno in the gold pants, Phil Manzanera and Graham Simpson (I think); and Andy Mackay in the shiny green leprechaun vampire jacket and oboe.

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Deformscape

LB — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:56:36 +0000

Deformscape is by Faulders Studio, the San Francisco office of architect Thom Faulders. This post is for Paul, who misses posts with mathematical content, and @jennifergardy, who first pointed it out.

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Soviet architecture from the 60s and 70s, photographed by Frederic Chaubin

LB — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:57:12 +0000

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.

Spomenik: The End of History, by Jan Kempenaers

LB — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:01:40 +0000

Photo essay of post-war Yugoslavian monuments and architecture by Belgian artist Jan Kempenaers, from the Crown Gallery site. “Spomenik” means monument, and all of these structures were meant to commemorate WWII losses and point to progress and a generally utopian future.

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Lo-fi sci-fi

LB — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:55:26 +0000

Things for the homemade space station where we’ll live in some sort of harmony and wear space rags.

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Architecture in the movies, Part 4 – Aeon Flux

LB — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:58:33 +0000

Berlin’s modernist and contemporary architecture stands in for Aeon Flux‘s fictional city of Bregna in the year 2415 with surprisingly little alteration.

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