Saturday, June 13, 2009

Down-to-Earth Dome

This is a pretty prosaic piece of bank architecture, but the evening sky gives it a little drama. Probably if you are going to guess what buildings in the future will really look like, this is more predictable than some of the other ones I've proposed as cover art for sci-fi.

In the current Atlantic, I read an article about human beings adapting to our changing world: "Get Smart" by Jamais Cascio (is Jamais a pseudonym? it does mean "never" in French, and I've never seen it as a name for a man or woman). Many of the insights Cascio mentioned seemed to come from sci-fi, which seemed strange in the context of an effort to project real life. Could the future really be foreshadowed in all these odd buildings that I find so much like sci-fi illustrations?

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