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I dont know if you've answered this before but what are your favorite buildings or architecture styles from movies or TV shows that are sci-fi/fantasy/superhero themed? Like buildings that dont exist in the real world but were created for this genre of film?

We have featured the architecture of works of fiction previously in literature, movies and tv. You can check some other posts like:

Movies and TV architecture

Movies AI + architecture

Book fiction architecture

Existing Architecture that “Looks” Sci-Fi

The (Best) Architecture of the Star Wars Saga

The Architecture of Sense8

Harry Potter & Magical Spaces

Top 7 [ARCHITECTURALLY] Creative Videogames

Blade Runner Concept Art

Best Existing Architecture in Film

The Incredibles II House

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These ten books that cover a broad range of topics, from Herman Hertzberger's advice to architecture students to an analysis of the films of Alfred Hitchcock.

The Origins of Modernism in Russian Architecture By William Craft Brumfield

Dwelling in the Text: Houses in American Fiction By Marilyn R. Chandler

The Urban Wilderness: A History of the American City By Sam Bass Warner Jr.

American Urban Architecture: Catalysts in the Design of Cities By Wayne Attoe and Donn Logan

Lessons for Students in Architecture By Herman Hertzberger

The Domestic and the Foreign in Architecture Edited by Sang Lee and Ruth Baumeister

Cognitive Architecture. From Biopolitics to Noopolitics. Architecture & Mind in the Age of Communication and Information Edited by Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich

The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock By Steven Jacobs

On Being an Architect By William Lescaze

Masters of Modern Architecture By George Braziller

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DRAWING BY MARK A REYNOLDS

Artist Mark A Reynolds - Most of the work shown here was produced over the last several years, and shows my continuing interest in and development of geometry as an art form. Some of the artwork is based on discoveries and inventions that I have made through the daily practice of drawing and experimentation. The work develops as much from an artistic and creative process as from any preplanned calculations, although the perimeter ratio is always predetermined in order to define the specific geometric system I will be working with.

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Water Ballet by Olga Gladysheva.

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IBM solar collector magnifies sun by 2,000x (without cooking itself), costs 3x less than similar systems

Cleverly combining solar PV with solar thermal to reach 80% conversion efficiency

Concentrating the sun’s ray onto solar photovoltaic (PV) modules requires walking the fine line between optimizing power output and not literally melting your very expensive super-high-efficiency solar cells. A team led by IBM Research seems to have found a way to push back the line. They have created a High Concentration PhotoVoltaic Thermal (HCPVT) system that is capable of concentrating the power of 2,000 suns onto hundreds of triple junction photovoltaic chips measuring a single square centimeter each (they even claim to be able to keep temperatures safe up to 5,000x). The trick is that each solar PV cell is cooled using technology developed for supercomputers; microchannels inspired by blood vessels but only a few tens of micrometers in width pipe liquid coolant in and extract heat “10 times more effective than with passive air cooling.”

Waste not

The beauty is that this heat is not just thrown away. This system gets useful work out of it. So while the PV modules are 30%+ efficient at converting the sun’s light into electricity, another 50% of the sun’s energy is captured as heat and can then be used to do things like thermal water desalination and adsorption cooling. This means that the system is capable of converting around 80% of the collected solar energy into useable energy (though the electricity is of course more useful than the thermal energy).

A single collector can produce about 25 kilowatts of electricity. Below is a closeup of some PV cells where the light is being concentrated. Notice the piping to bring the liquid coolant.

"The design of the system is elegantly simple," said Andrea Pedretti , chief technology officer at Airlight Energy. "We replace expensive steel and glass with low cost concrete and simple pressurized metalized foils. The small high-tech components, in particular the microchannel coolers and the molds, can be manufactured in Switzerland with the remaining construction and assembly done in the region of the installation. This leads to a win-win situation where the system is cost competitive and jobs are created in both regions."

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Aerial of the Great Salt Lake in Utah.Photograph by Paul Zahl, National Geographic

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"In the series Landscape Monoliths, photographer Reynald Drouhin transforms stunning landscapes by defining the middle portion of the image and turning it upside down."

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