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Immaginare Città ı Urban Publishing Project ı
Seville 24/7 Centre Proposal - Ayrat Khusnutdinov and Zhang Liheng
Every child has written their names on the beach at some point. But whereas most people’s ‘sandwriting’ is washed away, one super-rich Arab sheikh has ensured that his doodles will last a little longer. Hamad Bin Hamdan Al Nahyan, 63, has scrawled his name in sand on an island he owns with letters so big they can be seen from space.
The word ‘HAMAD’ measures 1,000 metres high and is a staggering two miles long from the ‘H’ to the ‘D’ on the Al Futaisi island. And rather than allow the writing to be washed away by the ocean, the letters actually form waterways that absorb the encroaching tide.The ruler’s name is even visible on Google’s map service.
“Balling”
(Source: gruesometwosome)
SUPERSTUDIO
PHOTOMONTAGE FROM ‘SALVAGES OF ITALIAN HISTORIC CITY CENTERS’, 1971-72
Cesar Domela
Walter Jonas - Intrapolis - 1960
Too bad this one-million-person city from New York to San Francisco was never built
“It spanned on hundred meter high pillars straight across the American continent. Its interior combined all classical functions of urban life and was connected by a complex traffic system that was differentiated by speed, transportation and distances”
This is straight outta Italo Calvino, I tell you whut.
Paul Rudolph - Lower Manhattan Expressway - 1970
