Archinect - News 2024-05-05T17:58:07-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/62801702/the-architectural-dreams-that-never-came-down-to-earth The architectural dreams that never came down to earth Archinect 2012-12-05T14:17:00-05:00 >2012-12-10T18:51:45-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ji/jimm73184dbw7atx.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Produced as a diploma project in 1928, it justified itself by pointing out &ndash; as generations of environmentalists would later insist &ndash; the need to minimise human impact on the planet. Except rather than treading lightly on it, we wouldn't be treading on it at all, but living in flying mobile homes, which could dock at collective housing, hotels, factories and leisure centres, able to descend to the earth to enjoy it unspoilt.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html> https://archinect.com/news/article/12105517/glen-small-s-detroit-trilogy Glen Small's Detroit Trilogy Orhan Ayyüce 2011-07-03T18:05:01-04:00 >2022-03-16T09:10:02-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/pe/pexyr4kwj8h6s7d8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> Glen Small's visionary urban projects of Detroit 1966-69:</p> <p> <a href="http://www.smallatlarge.com/2011/06/kern-block-detroit-1966/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">KERN BLOCK</a><a href="http://www.smallatlarge.com/2011/06/vertical-road-mass-transit-detroit-1967/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br> VERTICAL ROAD MASS TRANSIT DETROIT </a><a href="http://www.smallatlarge.com/2011/06/the-great-stadium-issue-home-of-fun-and-games/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><br> THE GREAT STADIUM</a></p>