#architecture: scifi

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source link: new york city series

New York City Tom Hegan

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Saw this on Reddit with this question. Why don't our cities look like this?

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sources: max hay, marcel deneuve

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capital city tower moscow

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Max Bedulenko

@BedulenkoMa

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By novanoxone

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source: swang

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YG entertainment building in South Korea

Source: Pinterest 

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bubblegum crisis: born to kill (1987) art dir. kazuhiro arai

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from Kaiba (2008)

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source: chipsxcrossing

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by TOKYOLUV

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Enith’s cities are massive. With winding, maze-like paths and layers upon layers of buildings, they’re also very easy to get lost in.

Many of Enith’s oldest cities, founded by Corldaxians, had begun as submerged or fully underground towns. Many dark-age cultures believed tunneling to be the safest form of architecture. This did help to protect them from aerial predators, but as the march of technology began anew the Corldaxians discovered better defenses, and new building styles.

The ground floor of many Enithian cities were built long ago, but are seen as more modern than the historic submerged sections.

The paths on this section are often more complicated than those underground. The sudden population boom at the beginning of the second space age meant that many buildings were built all at once, with little care as to how a city may look in the end.

Higher levels were built later still, after the discovery of other sapient species living on Enith.

Skyscrapers and roost-towers, these levels were made for both the original Corldaxians and their flying cousins. Some buildings, in the higher mountains, even reach heights that make it difficult to breathe. Very few of these sections are fully walkable, since the buildings are spread out far enough to allow for flight between them.

All of these images would be of one city and three eras worth of architectural styles. The styles here are typical of the major northeast island, which is by vast majority populated by Corldaxians. Other areas, other islands, and other cultures (outside of the majority Corldaxian one of the early second space age) all have different architectural styles.