December 26, 2011 by iansales 1 Comment The future we used to have, part 7 It’s nearly the end of 2011, so imagine a 2012 that might have looked a bit like this… Homes The remarkable Volcano House - see http://www.archithings.net The remarkable Volcano House - see http://www.archithings.net Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University A Titan missile complex - see http://www.titan2icbm.org Thomy Lafon School, New Orleans Planes Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Bartini Beriev VVA-14 Breguet 731 Bellatrix (from xplanes.tumblr.com) Convair YF-107 Mars Russian Mars mission spacecraft (from astronomy.neatherd.org) NASA Mars Mission (1989, Les Bossinas of NASA Lewis Research Center)
June 23, 2011 by iansales 1 Comment The future we used to have, part 3 Being the next in an ongoing and irregular series of posts featuring cool pictures from around and about the tinterweb of cool modernist and futurist vehicles, buildings, and suchlike. Some are real, some never got off the drawingboard. aircraft Convair Sea Dart Avro 730 model kit Vickers Type 559 interceptor spacecraft Soviet LK lunar lander Proposed Mars mission cars and trucks General Motors Futureliner Chrysler 1961 concept car Buick 1956 concept car buildings credit: Julius Shulman Credit: Julius Shulman Le Corbusier Museum, Chandrighar, India cities From World Fair 1939 From GM Futurama 1964 Underwater habitat from GM Futurama 1964