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A Round The House

visitors to the 1958 Ideal Homes Exhibition in Olympia, London examine a ‘Round House,’ especially designed for use in the Belgian Congo.  photo dated March 3, 1958

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Fair Warning

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visitors to the General Motors Highways and Horizons at the 1939 New York‘s World’s Fair will view the world of tomorrow from 550 comfortable moving sound chairs, moved on a Westinghouse conveyor system traveling at approximately 102 feet per minute, while touring a vast scale model of the American countryside covering more than 35,000 square feet and extending of a third of a mile on several levels of the building.  The ‘Futurama’ is the largest scale model ever constructed and includes more than 500,000 buildings and houses, over a million trees and 50,000 motor vehicles, of which thousands will be in motion

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Future Perfect

Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1925 master plan for a Los Angeles Civic Center

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Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1947 plan for the Huntington Hartford Sports Club

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Pereira & Luckman’s 1952 proposal for LAX

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1965 proposal for the Santa Monica Offshore Freeway

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all a part of 

A+D Museum’s Never Built: Los Angeles

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