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Planetarium

LB — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 23:31:40 +0000

I’ve liked this building from childhood, but somehow I managed to see it with fresh eyes recently – I was late for an art event there, it was dusk, I was tired, the entry was deserted and somehow I suddenly noticed how ridiculously beautiful it is.

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Vancouver, if Tokyo doesn’t want the Nakagin Capsule Tower, let’s ship it over here.

LB — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:50:26 +0000

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.

Home 1980!

LB — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 21:47:15 +0000

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.

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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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Geodesic dome redux

LB — Thu, 28 May 2009 13:42:27 +0000

This post is sort of a follow-up to a previous post with a similar thesis: that the 60s and 70s aren’t dead, they’re alive and well and living on tumblr.

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Joe Colombo

LB — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 19:31:59 +0000

Joe Colombo, 1930 – 1971, a prolific Italian architect, designer, artist and filmmaker, produced a substantial, instantly recognizable body of work before dying far too young at 41.

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Robot flower power

LB — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:13:28 +0000

70s space age armchair, via backgarage, origin and name unknown. Does anyone know who or what made this? Does it actually bounce on that spring? Imagine eating breakfast in this chair.

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Joo Youn Paek – Pillow Wig, Self-Sustainable Chair

LB — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:16:25 +0000

See all Joo Youn Paek’s inventions here. Yes, they’re functional: as art.

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Houses like spaceships, spaceships like houses

LB — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:18:41 +0000

Bathroom futurism! Excellent circular spaceship thing going on here. I’m not sure about shag rugs in the bathroom, but will boldly go where no one has gone before. Still, how on earth would you clean this room?

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