Gleefully inspired from vintage_ads, the idea of a weather dome probably seemed far-fetched when this magazine ad was published in 1956. The image shows up cropped online without attribution, but a little digging revealed that sponsor was "America's Independent Light and Power Companies"--whoever they are!

Visitors to West Edmonton Mall's World Waterpark or Germany's Tropical Island Resort know that you can make a bit of paradise in cold weather places.

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International Marketland – 1959 – WL Couverly


Pacific Ocean Park, A hotel off the coast of Santa Monica – 1969 – Daniel, Mann, Johnson and Mendenhall (DMJM)


Grand Avenue – 1979 – Barton Myers, Pelli, Gehry

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1. # 2 (Март-апрель) 1967

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Usually known for his futuristic fashions, Pierre Cardin lived his ideals with this fascinatingly futuristic home designed by Hungarian architect Antti Lovag and located on Massif de L’Esterel on the French Riviera. Built between 1975 and 1989, Cardin was surprisingly not the original owner of this sprawling colony!

View dozens of photos of the interior and exterior here: https://flashbak.com/pierre-cardin-home-palais-bulles-bubble-palace-france-436459/

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(from Popular Mechanics )


Tomorrow's farmer, if a diorama at the New York World's Fair prophesies are right, will be rather a radio navigator and dispatcher than a tiller of the soil.
The diorama depicts the farm engineer seated in his glass-enclosed radio tower, manipulating switches that transmit radio signals to the robot machines that sow and cultivate, irrigate, harvest, sort and can, freeze and pack the crop, all by remote control.

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Charles Paulson Ginsburg (July 27, 1920 – April 9, 1992) was an American engineer and the leader of a research team at Ampex which developed one of the first practical videotape recorders.



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1973

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Universum Science Center in Bremen, Germany

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rare Hungarian movie poster, 1979



Original Soundtrack, 1968

01. Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
02. Ligeti - Requiem For Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano, 2 Mixed Choirs & Orchestra
03. Ligeti - Lux Aeterna
04. Johann Strauss - The Blue Danube
05. Khatchaturian - Gayne Ballet Suite (Adagio)
06. Ligeti - Atmospheres
07. The Blue Danube - End Credits
08. Also Sprach Zarathustra - End Theme

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The Tube Station, 1932



The Tube Staircase



The escalator, 1925



The Sunshine Roof

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1944 (undated) Kitchen of Tomorrow


1945-09-03 The Supermarket of the Future



1945-03-12 Office of the Future


1945-02-12
Tomorrow`s Automatic Sleep Comfort

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1943 - Chemical Bomb Will Destroy Fires



1944-03-20 Lighting Electrical Storm Future Power Plant



1945-01-22 Fog-melting headlights



1946 - Radar saves lives tomorrow

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July 1968

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the middle-class lifestyle of the future

1945-10-01 Luxurious air cruises


1946


1945-05-07 Travel Center - Future Airport & Train Station. Lurelle Guild Art





1943-11-29 Tomorrow's Helicopter

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1947-06-23 Jet-engined boats



1947-03-17 Man-made snow



1947-04-12 Skyway delivery



1947-01-20 Light plane parachute

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1943-04-12 High-speed amphibious cars



1943-05-17 Turning Solar Home



1944-02-21 Health centers



1945-06-25 Futuristic Moving Sidewalks

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