Image: Shanghai Sunday Times, April 1930.
You can just see how the construction of the Sassoon House stirred the artist's imagination. What he did not anticipate is how depressing this "dwelling many storeys above the ground" will be.
Shanghai in 1980, as imagined in 1930
Image: Shanghai Sunday Times, April 1930.
You can just see how the construction of the Sassoon House stirred the artist's imagination. What he did not anticipate is how depressing this "dwelling many storeys above the ground" will be.
Posts from This Journal “futurism” Tag
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Futuristic vision of Shanghai in 1936
Not the greatest quality image, but here the old meets the new, on the 1936 cover of the China Press: The futuristic building on the right might…
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China in 1951, as envisioned in 1910
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#146 Shanghai Architecture Series: Futuristic visions in old Shanghai
This was written for the bi-weekly architecture series in Magazeta: https://magazeta.com/arc-future/ Shanghai city planners and architects…
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