The Theme Building, designed by the futuristic architects William Pereira, Charles Luckman Associates, Welton Becket & Associates and Paul R. Williams, was built in 1961 to serve as the center of the airport, a ticketing spot through which all passengers would pass.
It captured the attention of futuristic architects around the world and especially the young architect Norman Foster who employed Fuller as a consultant to his adventurous and, ultimately, hugely successful London studio until Fuller's death in 1983.
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The buildings in New York were derived from both metabolist-inspired masses of modular apartments from the 1960s, and the futuristic designs of architect Antonio Sant'Elia in the 1910s.
The high point of the town in every sense is the surrounding mountain range, which can be accessed in spectacular fashion via the new funicular with futuristic stations designed by architect Zaha Hadid.
Wander into the Moore Building — where Design Miami, the design offshoot to Art Basel Miami Beach, is held — and stumble across a white futuristic installation by the architect Zaha Hadid.
That jungle gym inspired a lifelong fascination with Buckminster Fuller, the architect and futuristic thinker who invented the geodesic dome, said Mr. Przybilla, who is now a 35-year-old English teacher in Brooklyn.
If architecture is your passion, stay at Hotel Le Corbusier (00 33 4 9116 7800; hotellecorbusier.com; rooms from €59) on the seventh floor of the Swiss architect's futuristic complex, the Unité d'Habitation.
[C20.] A Top Inspired by Buckminster Fuller Kurt Przybilla's childhood jungle gym inspired a lifelong fascination with Buckminster Fuller, the architect and futuristic thinker who invented the geodesic dome, and that led to Mr. Przybilla's newly patented invention, which he describes as an omnidirectional top.
Three Ships (above), the futuristic structure designed by architect Filip Kurzewski, is three different ships that, a little bit like the Voltron, once placed together create something new and exciting and powerful.
All along the harbor and in the city's South Axis area, futuristic buildings designed by architects like Renzo Piano and Rafael Viñoly have been going up — a modernist foil to the city's venerable canal houses.
