Floating utopias: Kiyonori Kikutake's 'Marine City Project' (1963) as recently re-imagined by Antxon Canovas artstation.com/artwork/0qWe
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Original model and functional zoning of Kiyonori Kikutake's 'Marine City Project' (1963) article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.arch
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In the early 1960s, Richard Buckminster Fuller was "commissioned by a Japanese patron to design one of [his] tetrahedronal floating cities for Tokyo Bay" books.google.at/books?id=mkvoD His bold, unbuilt project was a floating utopia named 'Triton City' (1967)
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'Freedom Cove', a self-sufficient, floating island built by Canadian couple Wayne Adams and Catherine King
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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 spiegel.de/international/
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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:
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It sounds very interesting, indeed! Thanks for the advice, Giorgio.