Floating utopias: Kiyonori Kikutake's 'Marine City Project' (1963) as recently re-imagined by Antxon Canovas https://www.artstation.com/artwork/0qWe pic.twitter.com/RZHQxwFtRS
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'Freedom Cove', a self-sufficient, floating island built by Canadian couple Wayne Adams and Catherine King https://www.treehugger.com/resilience/bc-couple-builds-floating-grid-island-freedom-cover-wayne-adams-and-catherine-king.html …pic.twitter.com/6Rvhrdkof6
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Neft Daşları, Stalin's floating utopia, built in the Caspian Sea between 1949 and 1951. Today, it looks like a dystopian relict, but it was an industrial marvel, a network of oil platforms, housing 5,000 workers, with a cinema, a park & apartment blocks http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/exploring-the-crumbling-soviet-oil-platform-city-of-neft-dashlari-a-867055.html …pic.twitter.com/6YYaO3hatU
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The (floating) Republic of Rose Island. In 1968, a Bolognese engineer, Giorgio Rosa, declared a sea-platform in the Adriatic Sea, 11 kilometres off the coast of Rimini, an independent state, under the Esperanto name Respubliko de la Insulo de la Rozoj https://books.google.at/books?id=CrfwGa4aCwYC&pg=PA176&lpg=PA176&dq=%22rose+island%22+rimini&source=bl&ots=J_xVE8q4L_&sig=_fnx7mVdxhvHJ8RXS7dnozix0-s&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjWkM2e69zbAhXSKlAKHZVDBuoQ6AEIZzAK#v=onepage&q=%22rose%20island%22%20rimini&f=false …pic.twitter.com/visyw8e5nh
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Here is a fascinating article by C.C. O'Hanlon [
@ccohanlon] on water-borne communities and floating utopias https://medium.com/@creedcohanlon/sealand-2008-11e017980187 …pic.twitter.com/WrlJQHGZwx
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I remember watching 'La Cite' du Petrol / Oil Rock - City above the Sea', a documentary on Neft Daslari. Fascinating insight into this floating utopia. Strongly recommended if you haven't watched it already:https://vimeo.com/ondemand/oilrocks …
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It sounds very interesting, indeed! Thanks for the advice, Giorgio.
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Do people still live there? Can it be visited?
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The Azerbaijan Wikipedia reports that Neft Daşları has a population of about 4000 https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neft_Da%C5%9Flar%C4%B1 …
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this is the thing in the world is not enough right?
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Wow weird
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