This drawing is titled La Barcelona futura (“The Future Barcelona”) and was made in 1929 imagining how the future would look like in the Via Laietana (one of the busiest streets in Barcelona, which had been built in the early 1900s destroying part of the tiny medieval alleys in order to give the city a much needed road near the centre).
Image source: Arxiu Històric del Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya.
If you know Barcelona, you can recognise the real place this view is seen from, as well as some of the characteristic buildings of the city that would remain in place like the Cathedral (the medieval bell tower and the neo-Gothic façade stick out on the upper right side) and the higher part of the Caixa de Pensions building on the below-left corner.
(On the left, the Caixa de Pensions situated at the top of Via Laietana. On the right, a view of the Cathedral from Via Laietana)
Needless to say, this is not how the future turned out to be. This is what Via Laietana looks like nowadays, probably not so different from what it looked like in the 1920s except with more modern cars:
52 notes
·
View notes
I wish life could be a futuristic city.
0 notes
「 commission 」 illustration for Sonicfox 🔥🌆
252 notes
·
View notes
Happy New Year everyone! First twitch screen commission of the year <3
Insta: @debbiebalboa
Twitter: @DebbieBalboa
2K notes
·
View notes