While we wait for the next Chicxulub meteor to end the experiment we laughingly call “civilisation”, here’s a few of the more aesthetically-pleasing things we’ve managed to produce since we stumbled out of the Rift Valley. I say, “aesthetically-pleasing” because machines expressly designed to kill people in large numbers are not what you would call admirable…
air
Martin P4M Mercator maritime reconnaissance aircraft (1950 – 1960)
McDonnell F-101 Voodoo supersonic jet fighter (1957 – 1972)
sea
SS Canberra (1960 – 1997)
USS Enterprise (1960 – 2012)
land
Stockwell Bus Garage, London (1952)
Trinity United Reform Church, Ecclesall Road, Sheffield
Fiesta Nightclub, Pond Street Development, Sheffield (1966)
Pond Street Development, Sheffield, seen across bus station (1966)
people
Pierre Cardin fashion
Pierre Cardin fashion
from Star Trek, ‘The Naked Time’. I have no idea what they’re wearing or why they’re inspecting a frozen shop window dummy
from The Solarnauts, an unsold pilot for a UK sf television series
notes
Check out this website for even more fun futuristic fashion, from both designers and media.
And here’s the full pilot of The Solarnauts. It is ace – the credit sequence alone is brilliant.
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