There is no single Hadid style, although one can detect a watermark in her buildings' futuristic smoothness.
Architecture and urban design are in the throes of a green fever dream: Everywhere you look there are plans for "sustainable" buildings, futuristic eco-cities, even vertical aquaponic farms in the sky, each promising to redeem the ecologically sinful modern city and bring its inhabitants back into harmony with nature.
The drawings use heightened perspective and exaggerated angles, and they make the building look futuristic and imposing, even today.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art is constructing one at its new academic building, a futuristic structure designed by Thom Mayne.
I think my father would have loved Frank Gehry's cafeteria in the Condé Nast building, a futuristic titanium bonbon that is everything he could have dreamed of.
In this clip from Friday's Utopia/Dystopia Fiction Night panel, held at Gramercy Theatre, Margaret Atwood talks about the process of building a futuristic world.
Despite queries raised on all of these scores, Lazika's first building — a futuristic Public Service Hall for the new city — is already under construction, and due to open in September.
And simply building new futuristic trains zipping around at more than 150 miles an hour would be an accomplishment in itself, one that could lift the spirits of a recession-battered nation.
Like Dubai and Abu Dhabi, its rival Gulf principalities to the east, Qatar has grown with extraordinary speed, building a futuristic skyline of glass and steel towers and luring investors and workers from around the world.
By New Yorker Festival October 5, 2012 In this clip from Friday's Utopia/Dystopia Fiction Night panel, held at Gramercy Theatre, Margaret Atwood talks about the process of building a futuristic world.
