Since we’re supposed to be celebrating sixty years of Queen Elizabeth II on the throne, but watching a bunch of boats covered in bunting float down the Thames is dull, how about looking at some cool planes and cars and buildings from the last sixty years instead?
air
Hawker P.1121
Gloster Javelin
Mikoyan MiG-25 ‘Foxbat’
Mikoyan MiG-31 ‘Foxhound’
land
Supreme Court Building, Brasilia (Oscar Niemeyer)
Parque do Ibirapuera, São Paulo (Oscar Niemeyer & Roberto Burle Marx)
Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow (Nikolai Nikitin)
Observation deck of Ostankino TV Tower
water
NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered passenger/cargo ship
I want a time machine so I can go back to the 1960s and then go forward to the future they thought they were going to have. You know, the one with moon bases, jumpsuits, jetpacks, foodpills; where capitalism actually worked and everyone was happy and prosperous; and the only thing spoiling the clear blue skies were the sonic booms of supersonic bombers and airliners crossing the Atlantic in two hours…
Until someone actually invents that time machine, feast your eyes on these:
Aeroplanes
Convair XB-46
Artwork of the Convair XB-42
Convair XB-43 (a jet-powered version of the XB-42)
Buildings
Kamzík TV Tower, Bratislava
Kamzík TV Tower, Bratislava
Slovak Broadcast Building, Bratislava
The Memorial and Museum of the Slovak National Uprising, Bratislava
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Niterói (Oscar Niemeyer)
Liberty Pantheon, Brasilia (Oscar Niemeyer)
Fashion
In the future, everyone will wear beige (Space: 1999)
In the future, everyone will wear string vests (UFO)
In the future, everyone will dress like humbugs (Pierre Cardin)
In the future, everyone will wear black– no, wait… (Raumpatrouille Orion)
In the future, everyone will wear high-heeled waders (Pierre Cardin)
