Latest Posts by pit-stopz - Page 2

everyone hate my loquacious swag. its always "why did you make this sentence so long" and "why do you use so many commas and em dashes" and never "how did you come up with that run on sentence" or "writing that run on sentence looked fun"

Roy Scarfo, 1965.

Lighthearted vision of a Moon city by Roy Kerswill, circa 1959.

(Mike Acs)

In 2020 i wanna be as relaxed as these capybaras in a hot spring

Underground Library,

Kurkku Fields, Kisarazu City, Chiba Prefecture, Japan,

Hiroshi Nakamura and NAP Architects,

Photo: Kohei Omachi

A small hot spring hides in the woods, only the steam revealing it

1st Photo Credit: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/308778118171072647/

2nd Photo Credit: http://www.expressnews.com/news/environment/article/SA-Botanical-Garden-is-growing-6271706.php

3rd Photo Credit: http://www.wikiwand.com/en/San_Antonio_Botanical_Garden

All three pictures show the scale of the Lucile Halsell Conservatory, the last two showing the scale and the interior. It is important to see how grand the conservatory truly is and how small the people are in comparison to the massive structures. Even next to the plants, the visitors look negligible proving that the buildings needed to be grand not only for a design aspect but because physically the function required it so the plants could grow and expand as needed. 

Danakil Depression in Dallol, Ethiopia

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Hans Vagt and Peter Bannert, Radio set "Pop 70", 1969. Wood, plastic, metal, manufactured by: Blaupunkt, Hildesheim, Germany (1969-1976). Photos via 1stDibs / Radiomuseum

"The first stereo radio designed specifically for the rooms of adult sons and daughters. As an acoustic and visual center. Not a toy, but a real stereo device." Salesfolder Blaupunkt

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‘Marshmallow’ Sofa. Designed in 1956 by Irving Harper of George Nelson Associates in New York; manufactured from 1956 to ca. 1965 (and 1999 onwards) by Herman Miller Furniture Company in Zeeland, Michigan. Philadelphia Museum of Art accession number: 1996-30-1.

"This sofa's eighteen cushions are attached to an exposed frame in a radical rethinking of the traditional upholstered sofa. The cushions can be detached for easy cleaning or 'interchanged to equalize wear.'"

(Source: philamuseum.org)

Chairs fit for an astronaut. The crew of Apollo 16 (John Young, Charlie Duke & Ken Mattingly) have their suits checked out in preparation for their April 1972 flight. The 11-day, 2 hour mission was the rookie flight for Duke & Mattingly & was Young’s incredible 4th flight into space.

vintage view-master ad

Pierre Cardin’s Bubble Palace In Cannes, France by Antti Lovag.

Built between 1975-1989.

Site plan of the Worldbridge Trade and Investment Center. Baltimore, Maryland - Emilio Ambasz. 1992

Megaflora

A geothermal dance | Námaskarð, Iceland

1966 energy conversion devices by NASA/Glenn research center via archive.org

Rancho Palos Verdes, California.

(Daily Breeze)

Brian Lewis’s unused art for Usborne’s “Cities of the Future.” 

This is Francis Kéré, an architect from Burkina Faso and at least in my eyes, the patron saint of "afro solar punk". He builds using local, sustainable materials, and uses the education he received in Germany to improve on traditional methods already known. His first project was a school in his home village, built to enable other children to receive an education like he once was. The school has a self-cooling mechanism that does not require AC and was built cost effectively together with the community. This year he won the Pritzker Prize. You know what, just watch his TED Talk, I highly recommend it.

So anyway I personally welcome the imminent lunar dome city colonies to eventually sprout from this revelation, like all my fav sci-fis. I'd live on the moon, how about you?