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North Korean architect imagines the future

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My brain cannot process whatever is happening here.
I believe it's a flying house. With different angles.
 
If you can even get it to lift off. That's a small ass propeller.

The purple thing underneath is secretly alien technology, the propellers are just there to distract from the secrets so the US never find out. But if you shoot the bottom, you do critical damage.
 
It's like a flying public transport or house.

You see the section of it in the bottom left corner and the inside in the bottom right.

Then, it flying on the top right.

Why are you able to see the purple ring on the top left if you can also see the roof?
 
This guy is smuggling in illegal contraband. Needs to be careful because NK is the kind of place where ending up naked and blindfolded in a forest is a possibility.
 
I like these a lot. I wasn't expecting that.

They all seem functional and futuristic without seeming ridiculous or impossible. It's really well done.

Those pyramid houses are glorious and they need to be in Civilization: Beyond Earth.
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My brain cannot process whatever is happening here.

Top left: exterior view of housecraft.

Top right: Exterior view from the bottom.

Bottom left: Housecraft landed, with x-ray view of interior layout.

Bottom right: Interior view, as seen from a passenger's perspective.
 
What's up with all the cones and pyramids? That hideous unfinished hotel in North Korea is all cones and pyramids too. Are cones and pyramids the core design concept taught at the University of Architecture.
 
I love it, it's completely what people in the 60's or earlier would have once thought things might look like. It so captures that retro vibe.
 
I would fund a kickstarter that had this artwork, and crowdfunding is probably the only way North Korea could fund its tourism given the shitty leadership
 
Isn't there a guy name Jeaques something that has real architecture similar to this? It's in zeitgeist movie, that one guy. It's practical stuff.
 
Do it NK, I want to see the Earth to start building the shit we see in video games and movies. I want to go to Dubai again also lol.
 
I feel like they should have asked more architects from the country for drawings, but I really like this person's ideas. They seem really cool.

Don't get the negativity. "no limits on costs, scale or physical possibilities" what would you design? A ton of skyscrapers? An underwater city? I wish I was as imaginative as this person. Or are people just dismissing the art because it comes from North Korea? This is why I wish they'd gotten more people involved, as it stands people are thinking of this guy as North Korea's sole representative in futuristic architecture, and I'd argue some are dismissing him solely for this reason.
 
This actually really cool. It looks like futuro-optimist art from the 1950s, which makes so much sense considering the history of North Korea.
 

That one is pretty realistic for mega cities imo.
I remember there's such a design for the first 1 km high building.

Though I'm not sure one could use the inner space of the lower levels efficiently, considering there's no windows.
 
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