Archigram meets Armageddon
[Images: Urban design re-imagined: from "islands in the air" and Alphecca to the Corbusierian core of Atlantis. It's Archigram meets Armageddon – on Independence Day – in these old sci-fi covers from the Frank R. Paul gallery. I particularly like the harsh treatment dished out to the Woolworth Building... The World Trade Center of its day? See also Pruned's Encyclopedia Retrofuturologica].
(Earlier: Air Wonder Stories. Thanks to Peter Hoh for the original link!)
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I like the third cover -- Capsela of Tomorrow. It reminded me of these they've been building in Japan.
I've often wondered to what extent Norman Foster has been influenced by 30s sf magazine cover art. And the slightly later space artist Chesley Bonestell, was a moderately famous designer and renderer in his own right--he worked for van Alen and Joseph Strauss. There's a story here...
Looking more closely at the first cover (When glaciers attack!) I noticed the word in the lower right corner: "scientifiction."
I like the attempt to combine "scientific" and "fiction," but it's an awkward word. No wonder it didn't catch on.
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