Reimagining the Golden Age of futuristic home designs:
magazine proposed a glass dome, but in outer space. 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.
Features for design reference: Ports for spacecraft, surrounded by protective dome, Astro-Turf garden, communications transmitters, plenty of open space.Utilizing a special new kind of glass designed to admit the ultraviolet “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. Like all the best new architectural innovations, Vitaglass was first tested in the monkey house of a city zoo.
Features for design reference: Rooftop garden, steam-powered movement, covered veranda/viewing platform, driver at front in steering box is wearing goggles.General Motors created the Futurama II Pavilion to blow the minds of visitors to the New York World's Fair in 1964. You can see their underwater world in motion in a promotional movie from the time.
Features for design reference: By General Motors at the Futurama 2 exhibit, part of a World’s Fair. It is a hotel called Hotel Atlantis. Glass front with table and people looking out at the sea. Underwater to farm the vast potential of the sea. What appears to be an elevator to the hotel from the surface, possibly air system. People traveled in seated crafts called aquacopters to explore the undersea world for minerals.
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