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7 Houses of the Future - According to the Past

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Rolling Houses (1930s) - The innovation was intended to make the remote construction and delivery of new homes more straightforward.







Space Houses (1960s) - Puerto Rican cover artist Alex Schomburg’s free-floating snow globes come complete with rooftop chutes for launching space hatchbacks out into the great unknown.







Glass Houses (1920s) - Utilizing a special new kind of glass designed to admit the ultraviolet, ahem, “health rays” of the sun, the Vitaglass house would offer a year-round summer thanks to the addition of mercury arc lamps for gloomy days.







Moving Houses (1920s) - This utopian vision posits a very social mobile home version of architectural tendencies that we’re actually seeing today. Its rooftop garden, for example, might offset the carbon footprint of the vehicle, easing the conscience of the steam-powered digital nomads onboard.







Underwater Houses (1960s) - While the rest of the world was staring at the stars, GM noted that we still have whole oceans that remain unconquered.







Lightweight Houses (1940s) - The January 1942 authors of “This Unfinished World” offered a vision that gets closer every day: using super-light “aerogel” to create buildings that are earthquake-resistant and require less resources to build.







Dome Houses (1950s) - The rotating dome would allow homeowners to make efficient use of the sun’s energy.


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Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future --- If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor, the late physicist Gerard O’Neill.

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/...lonies/589294/




An artist's rendering of a space habitat that Jeff Bezos presented onstage for Blue Origin.






Florence in space, with the Forbidden City visible in the distance. (Blue Origin)






A rendering of a toroidal (donut-shaped) space colony made by Rick Guidice for NASA in the 1970s.

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Jeff Bezos Dreams of a 1970s Future --- If the sci-fi space cities of Bezos’s Blue Origin look familiar, it’s because they’re derived from the work of his college professor, the late physicist Gerard O’Neill.

https://www.citylab.com/perspective/...lonies/589294/




An artist's rendering of a space habitat that Jeff Bezos presented onstage for Blue Origin.






Florence in space, with the Forbidden City visible in the distance. (Blue Origin)






A rendering of a toroidal (donut-shaped) space colony made by Rick Guidice for NASA in the 1970s.

This is presented like its crazy but once we make launching cheap enough to become comercially viable this is how people will live in space.

They will primarily be conducting low g manufacturing (some stuff is better built in 0g) Tourism, mining of asteroids and other rocky bodies, R&D, and possibly even energy (if we can find a way to transfer down to earth effectively)

People dont like nuclear and building a solar aray large enough is tough on earth but in space.......

The commercialization of space seems like science fiction but it will be happening A LOT sooner than people realize.
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This unignorable tower shows just how much people are struggling in Toronto

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- There have been pictures of a condo building more than two and a half times the height of the CN Tower circulating around social media since yesterday morning. No, it's not because the city is getting yet another super-development. It's to show how big of a tower Toronto would need to house all of the citizens experiencing poverty in the GTA. The building, dubbed the #unignorable tower, would need to have space for 116,317 individuals and families.

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Hayri Atak Proposes Striking, Sinuous 'Sarcostyle Tower' For The New York Skyline

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- Hayri Atak architectural design studio has envisioned a striking skyscraper for the Manhattan skyline, whose amorphous shape and material properties make it stand out among the neighboring buildings. while comparable in terms of scale and proportion, ‘Sarcostyle Tower’ is distinctly different from its context. Unlike some of its static, geometrically formed neighbors, the building is inspired by biological concepts, including anatomy and cells, which lend the project an organic sensibility within the dense cityscape. --- Hayri Atak architectural design studio has intertwined elements of the architecture into a sinuously-shaped structure that seemingly coils in on itself. This creates a series of voids that lend the project a sense of ghostly transparency, and offer different interpretations depending on where the building is viewed from. In this way, ‘Sarcostyle Tower’ demonstrates ever-changing perspectives that catch the eye and engage with their surroundings.

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Does Amazon’s ‘Helix’ Reflect the Shape of the Post-Pandemic Office?

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- On the same day that Amazon founder and erstwhile wealthiest human on earth Jeff Bezos gave notice that he is stepping down as chief executive, the company revealed another big twist: plans for a 350-foot-tall tower shaped like a conch shell that will serve as the spiraling centerpiece of its HQ2 office complex. Dubbed the Helix and designed by architecture firm NBBJ, the gleaming glass structure will anchor the e-commerce giant’s second headquarters in the suburbs outside Washington, D.C. The Helix stands on an 11-acre development within the broader campus in Arlington, Virginia, that Amazon is rebranding as National Landing. --- Inside, the building will feature meeting spaces and indoor gardens; on the outside, exterior pathways converge at the top of the spire, offering employees and weekend visitors the opportunity to scale a simulated Blue Ridge peak. While the “biophilic” double-helix design is striking, in the context of the ongoing economic fallout of the pandemic, the mere fact that the company is launching an office development of this scale makes it an epic undertaking. “The Helix is a very special building that represents Amazon’s commitment long-term,” says Dale Alberda, architect and principal at NBBJ.

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This weird doughnut skyscraper is the future of architecture

https://www.fastcompany.com/90648644...f-architecture

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- The pandemic exposed a hulking problem in cities around the world. Last spring, when cities imposed lockdowns and companies were forced to send office workers home, office buildings were left unexpectedly empty. Built specifically for work and business, these massive buildings became essentially useless. And as companies plan post-pandemic futures with less office real estate and more of their employees working from home, buildings designed just for offices are veering toward obsolescence. A radical new architectural concept offers a solution. Instead of designing buildings for specific purposes that may fade or disappear, architects and developers should create buildings that can accommodate a variety of uses, from offices to residential spaces to hotels to healthcare facilities. Towers should be designed to be neutral.

- That’s the idea behind the unTower, a proposed use-neutral skyscraper concept from B+H Architects. A Toronto-based firm with 10 offices around the world, the firm has been designing skyscrapers for decades. And now, as part of the Singapore-based global developers Surbana Jurong Group, the firm has tower and mixed-use projects in the works across North America and Asia. Developed in conjunction with a team of engineers and vetted for its economic feasibility, the unTower proposal envisions a new type of structure that can house a wide range of uses and be easily converted when new needs arise. Doug Demers, a senior managing principal at B+H Architects’ research and development-focused Advance Strategy practice, says the concept is about meeting the evolving demands of cities while also reducing the overall environmental impact of buildings themselves.

- Turning an office tower into residences or anything else is not a smooth process. From the layout of floors to the lack of natural light deep inside, buildings designed to be offices aren’t easily convertible to something one might consider a comfortable home. The unTower suggests a new approach. The concept is based around a simple doughnut-shaped building that has all its structural support at its interior and exterior edges, allowing the space within the doughnut to be configured for any type of use. Walls can be slotted in to divide the space into the rooms of an apartment or the separate units of a hotel, or removed completely for a large, column-free office. With windows outside and in, and the potential to add balconies or porches within the building’s atrium, the concept suggests a naturally lit building that could hold an office just as easily as a family home. “That’s the beauty of the doughnut,” Demers says.

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1,760 Acres. That’s How Much More of Manhattan We Need.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/14/o...an-expand.html

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- On Jan. 1, Eric Adams was sworn in as New York’s 110th mayor. He is now in charge of the city’s response to big, and growing, problems. One is a housing affordability crisis. Another concerns the ravages of climate change: sea level rise, flooding and storm surges. There is a way to help tackle both issues in one bold policy stroke: expand Manhattan Island into the harbor. --- This new proposal offers significant protection against surges while also creating new housing. To do this, it extends Manhattan into New York Harbor by 1,760 acres. This landfill development, like many others in the city’s past, would reshape the southern Manhattan shoreline. We can call the created area New Mannahatta. --- A neighborhood of that size is bigger than the Upper West Side (Community District 7), which is 1,220 acres. Imagine replicating from scratch a diverse neighborhood that contains housing in all shapes and sizes, from traditional brownstones to five-story apartment buildings to high-rise towers. If New Mannahatta is built with a density and style similar to the Upper West Side’s, it could have nearly 180,000 new housing units.

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^ one freaking mile of new track & station on the subway is already a couple bill and a half -- can you imagine the time and costs to do all that, even if everyone wanted to?

and look, they still didnt even triboro rx lol!
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^ one freaking mile of new track & station on the subway is already a couple bill and a half -- can you imagine the time and costs to do all that, even if everyone wanted to?

and look, they still didnt even triboro rx lol!
I don´t think the cost is the main factor in this never happening. Mostly because of the outrage going that far into the Harbor would probably cause, as well as the already ongoing projects that already cost billions.
I mean the 2nd avenue subway has to go through already existing structures and is very complicated, this would be built in an area that is relatively untouched.
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^ i'm pretty sure ridiculous cost is by far the main factor regardless of anyone's feelings about it!


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The payoff for the cost could be more property taxes and plenty of other stuff.
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^ more than that, i think a big part of the reasoning for the idea was sparked by the current efforts on the les waterfront to mitigate global warming related flooding. i think this project placement could help ??? the enormity seems ridiculous vs just putting up a few mounds along the waterfront downtown. maybe they would not need eventual harbor flood gates with this extension if they do it right? i dk.
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