Cities

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an old drawing of a city with tall buildings
Detroit's Grand Central: Michigan Central Station - ArchiTakes
This fantasy by the artist William Robinson Leigh was published in the November, 1908, issue of The Cosmopolitan magazine, illustrating a speculative article on the future by the inventor and polymath, Hudson Maxim.
an old drawing of a city with tall buildings in the middle and clouds above it
Darkpunk City Architecture: Psycho-Noir Cityscapes of Hugh Ferriss
Darkpunk City Architecture: Psycho-Noir Cityscapes of Hugh Ferriss (These drawings are a little too upscale for anything I am wanting to do with a St. Louis-Based neitherworld in the mid-20th century - they look more like a retrofuture London or New York/Gotham) but this collection blends a lot of the themes I am wanting to capture for "Deco-Goth")
an old black and white drawing of some buildings in the distance with dark clouds above them
Weird and wonderful visions of the future that never came to pass
Weird and wonderful visions of the future that never came to pass — Quartzy
an old photo of the empire building in new york city
A detail of Désiré Despradelle's Beacon of Progress, which was inspired by the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition and was meant to be built on the site of the Exposition. Despradelle won numerous honors for the Beacon, and fully intended it to be built. The scale of the edifice is evident in the ant-like people at the bottom of the drawing. Indeed, the large final elevation drawing was fifteen feet tall by ten feet wide.
an old black and white photo of skyscrapers
parallelismi – XV Napoli comicon
img 12_Hugh Ferriss - Projected Trends. Steel (The Metropolis of Tomorrow, 1929
this is an old drawing of a cityscape with skyscrapers in the background
Station 28 en Twitter: "The Metropolis of Tomorrow, Hugh Ferriss (1929)… "
an old black and white photo of a large clock tower in the middle of a city
if hugh ferris wrnt to Paris
an old drawing of water coming out of a dam
Hugh Ferriss (3)
Hugh Ferriss (3) | by paul.malon
an old black and white photo of a tall building
black and white photograph of city buildings in the early 20th century, looking down on them
Canyons Of Commerce
Canyons Of Commerce
an image of a red cityscape in the middle of the night with a ferris wheel on top
Third Man Records: Detroit RSD 2016
Subject: Third Man Records: Detroit RSD 2016 City: Detroit, MI Poster Size: 24 X 36 inches Colors/Ink: 2 color including metallic silver Paper: 100 lb...
an artistic black and white photo of stairs
Rudolf Steiner's Second Goetheanum Photo Gallery
Rudolf Steiner's Second Goetheanum, Interior poured concrete stairs during construction of Rudolf Steiner's second Goetheanum.
an old drawing of a city with skyscrapers
Architecture - architectural drawings-art.
Architecture - architectural drawings-art. — Metropolis Drawings (film 1927 Fritz Lang) (7) ...