Wednesday, 31 March 2010

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Superstudio





Superstudio, a group of radical Florentine architects, proposed a gridded superstructure that would wrap around the world. Eventually, this structure, Il Monumento Continuo, would cover the entire surface of the planet, leaving the Earth as featureless as the smoothest desert, or, more to the point, as a wilfully low-brow, suburban-style western city.
Despite the terrifying idea that Superstudio tried to convey, these images are so dreamy.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Victorian Parlour Aquariums





Vicorian women used to sit in their parlour's all day and watch fish eat each other. But these aquariums were oh so pretty.