El Centro de Managua—the ruins of the old downtown destroyed in the 1972 earthquake, never rebuilt due to corruption and political turmoil, still extant as a naturally occurring post-apocalyptic zone. I was there during the Sandinista years, and the images of people cooking over oil drum fires in abandoned buildings, Sherman tanks tagged with graffiti and overgrown with prairie grasses, and experimental Kindergartens underway in excavated basements, left an indelible impression.
A City on the Lost Horizon by Ned Scott via The Draftery
Oppenheim architecture + Design have come up with this incredible design for a hotel & spa in the desert of Wadi Rum, Jordan. The whole hotel is carved into the mountains. It should be completed in 2014.
Return to the caves.
(via architectureofdoom)
I’ll be at TCAF all weekend. Stop by and see me at table 158 I’ll have all the Uncivilized Books stuff including the brand new Micheael DeForge Structures book! I’ll also be signing at the Fantagraphics table for a bit! See you there!
All of the above + I’ll be signing Beta Testing the Apocalypse at the Fantagraphics table!
Everybody and their mother is part of The Infinite Corpse. It’s pretty great and fun to play around with. Above is a piece from my contribution.
Rooftop Racetrack: 1928 via Retronaut
“The Lingotto building, Turin, Italy, once housed a Fiat factory. Built between 1916 and 1923, the design had five floors, raw materials going in at the ground floor, and cars built on a line that went up through the building. Finished cars emerged at rooftop level, where there was a rooftop test track. It was the largest car factory in the world at the time. Le Corbusier called it “one of the most impressive sights in industry”, and “a guideline for town planning”.”
Trans Tumblr by Tom Kaczynski
the trade winds lyonel feininger, 1935
an odd piece from Feininger’s late-middle period; his...
DCXXXL #2 PROMO DETECTIVE
Done for Puffin cover competition for ‘The wind in the willows’. I didn’t submit this, but...
