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Kazimir Malevich, Arkhitektons, 1923–1930

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Nocturne with Architecture (1810) - Antonio Basoli (1774–1848)

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Anne of Denmark (1574-1619)

Artist: Paul van Somer (Flemish, c. 1576-1621)

Date: c. 1617-1618

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Anne of Denmark

Anne of Denmark (1574 –1619) was Queen of Scotland from her marriage to James VI and I on 20 August 1589 and Queen of England and Ireland from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603 until her death in 1619.

"Le canal St Martin" by Gérard Trignac, 1995. Copper plate etching printed on wove paper, 28.5 x 34 cm. Image via Mutual Art. French artist born 1955.

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Carlo Galli Bibiena (1721-1787)

Architectural Fantasies / Theatre set designs

Morgan Library & Museum

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Every sketch I’ve ever seen of a futuristic New York has included an above-ground highway. I suppose people in the 1920s realized that air travel was the future, and, short of the Jetsons’ personal airplanes, lifting the road up into the air was the closest they could get to that.

This drawing was published in the July 1927 issue of Popular Science. It showed a very real proposal for a 16-mile elevated highway that would span the rooftops of a Manhattan avenue. It was the work of John K. Hencken, a New York engineer, and was allegedly approved by “a number of eminent engineers and city planners.”

His plan called for a series of uniform 12-story buildings extending from the Battery Park to Yonkers. (Think of all the demolition that would involve.) The highway would be connected by bridges at all cross-streets. Sub-basements would contain “four railroad tracks for freight service, as well as conduits and sewers.” Not only that, the plan included a city within a city: apartments, offices, playgrounds, studios, schools, theaters, ballrooms, restaurants, and shops at the upper levels. Moving platforms, running at graduated speeds ranging from three to twenty miles an hour, would be on the highway and all bridges, to ease the strain for pedestrians.

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