Retro-futuristic architecture seems to exist outside of time, perhaps in parallel universes where the versions of the future envisioned by their creators actually became reality. They combine ...
Russian freelance artist Andrey Tkachenko reveals the figurative swans hidden deep within the notoriously ugly ducklings of the Soviet automobile industry. “General Motors is not in ...
Over 5500 miles of abandoned railways stretching from one end of Mexico to the other enticed two brothers to build an incredible retro-futuristic exploratory car. The SEFT-1 is modeled after a ...
There's nothing on earth like a genuine, bonafide, electrified six-car monorail. Or a one-car monorail with a propeller, or a high-speed rail plane, or even an amphibious monorail that can go ...
In the 1970s, these odd little pods were on the cutting edge of portable architecture, with a design clearly influenced by Space exploration and futurism. Today, they sit abandoned on the lot of ...
"These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible," reads the intro to a 1900 article printed in the Ladies Home Journal entitled 'What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.' And over a ...
Yesterday's visions of today were surprisingly accurate in some cases, but in others, they were humorously off-base. We're not zooming around our moon colony homes in jet packs, confirming our ...
What would New York have looked like, if the futuristic visions of innovative thinkers in the late-19th to mid-20th century had become reality? Midtown Manhattan could have been enclosed within a ...
What will our homes look like in the future? Packed with electronic controls and highly efficient gadgets, will they rapidly grow into strange, abstracted structures that bear little resemblance ...
Architects working with robots, firefighters equipped with artificial wings, electric learning machines and airships for everyone: this is the year 2000 - as imagined in 1910 - and it's a vision ...
