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City of Meriens – a conceptual design for a floating oceanographic university conceived by Jacques Rougerie Architecture.
900m long, 500m wide and based on the anatomy of a Manta Ray, the floating ‘city’ will have hydroponic greehouses, bays for marine and submersible craft, accomodation for up to 7000 people, lecture halls, classrooms, laboratories, sports zones, living space and ‘cultural relaxation areas’.
Downtown
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Spectacular aerial photographs of cities around the world from Russian not-for-profit AirPano.
Above: Amsterdam (1 & 2) , Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Prague and Ceský Krumlov, Czech Republic
Photographer and native New Yorker Vivienne Gucwa’s images of an eerily depopulated Big Apple during the much-hyped but ultimately uneventful non-blizzard earlier this week when all vehicles except snow ploughs and emergency vehicles were banned from the streets.
London-based illustrator and animator Andrew Khosravani sez of his rather adorable short:
The denizens of Crowded amble through their ever-expanding habitat seemingly oblivious to their mutating landscape – while the voyeur sits back and inhales the swarming scenery. The convivial tone veils the dystopian message of the narrative. Cranes, trains and automobiles instil a sense of constant industry – as the populous swells upwards, outwards, downwards and inwards – contorting and adapting – forcing the inhabitants to recast themselves.
Bailout Park
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Hypotopia – a model city installed in the centre of Vienna by team of students from the Technical University designed to show how much housing and infrastructure could be built with the €19 billion the government is currently paying to bail out the Hypo Alpe Adria bank.
Having done the requisite calculations, they imagined it as a home for 102,574 residents- Austria’s sixth largest city , complete with shops, power plants, and garbage disposal facilities.
But no banks.
(H/T: David Smith)
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Invasion of the spider tag of artist Paul Insect on the streets of London.
A robot searches for a playmate on the deserted streets of Paris in the aftermath of some unnamed catastrophe.
Created by Alexis Decelle, Cyril Declercq, Vincent Defour and Pierre Jury of the Paris/Montreal based Isart Digital Video Game and 3D Animation/VFX School. As Rob Munday of SOTW describes it:
Wall-E, as if directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Reflective
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Filmic loops reflecting on everyday urban and bucolic life by Strasbourg based photographer Julien Douvier, who uses a series of techniques to achieve the flow and pin-sharp detail of his polished übergifs.
A rainy Parisian timelapse using footage shot in January 2014 and October 2012 by Uk based photographer Hal Bergman.
Ah, Paris.
Music: “Wreck Beach” by Sean Bayntun