Nothing quite like the simultaneous awe and dread of looking at a construction so gargantuan that you feel like an ant on the floor of a cathedral
Pic is by Étienne-Louis Boullée. Also if you’re into this kind of stuff, check out the work of Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Also have a look at the short film The Centrifuge Brain Project.
Hugh Ferriss
No one wants to imagine 500 meter tall neoclassical architecture anymore. It’s all orbital, dyson sphere, and ringworld now.
edit: Alex Jay Brady for more original gigantic scifi structures https://xcancel.com/AlexJayBrady https://www.artstation.com/boac
Fan Wennan does basically this but for socialist realism
(I had one more I wanted to post but it seems like I hit some kind of rate-limit and it’s not expiring after a few minutes of waiting, so I’ll just link it: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/g8qe0x)
Nice, an intersection of two of my favorite things!
yea i love it, an amazing kind of liminal vibe with the impossible architecture. others in this thread already mentioned the game Naissance, but i also have to recommend the game Lorn’s Lure, a game about being a cyborg/android and climbing very similar kinds of spaces. also there was an episode of Off the Air on adult swim that had a segment towards the end with a flythrough of a 3d fractal that had marble architecture aesthetics that remind me of this.
Awe is a very accurate descriptor here :niko-wonderous:
I recommend the manga Blame! which takes place in a world entirely composed of one massive abandoned megastructure.
I remember learning about that one from a Jacob Geller video!
There’s a really good French/Belgian comic series for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cités_obscures
I’m intrigued. Is it possible to find these comics online?
Just checked, you can find them in Soulseek
Awesome, thanks!
Possibly? I’ve never had much success. Even finding them in print is tough.
a few by John Martin:
Belshazzar’s Feast, c. 1821
John Martin, Pandemonium, 1841
Satan Presiding at the Infernal Council, c. 1823–1827
Ooh, I’ve seen these before, and I love them. Pre-modern ones hit especially hard for me, probably because the less advanced construction techniques make their impossibility stand out even more.
Nothing quite like the simultaneous awe and dread of looking at a construction so gargantuan that you feel like an ant on the floor of a cathedral
Yes, I’ve played dark souls. This looks cool as hell in it’s own way
Nice, gives me Akira vibes.
That’s where it’s from! I love the architectural shots in this movie, especially from the ground, the city looks so alien
I’m afraid of being inside really tall buildings cause I keep worrying gravity is gonna suddenly reverse and I’ll plummet to the ceiling.
You might love the visuals in the movie “Last and First Men”. It’s just 70 minutes of cool B&W shots of the anti-fascist monuments in former Yugoslavia with Tilda Swinton narrating a sci-fi story about the humanity’s future.
I’ve always been fascinated by the Spomenik! Will definitely have to watch this.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
edit: oh shit I didn’t realize it’s straight-up free now, even better
I was going to recommend that too, it’s a good (if unforgiving) game and definitely strikes the feeling BeamBrain is looking for.
Have you seen the YouTube video called Monumentality? I think by solar sands or Jacob geller I can’t remember, it’ll knock your socks off
