Deep Impact on rails!

Via Neatorama

Spanish-built Tecnilinea Pyramid Liner is a series of clever textured pads that allow you to draw either freehand lines or perfectly square straight lines… freehand. These templates have a small grid of 0.5 milimeter spaced lines through which you run your pen or pencil to make technical drawing almost fun, and certainly a lot faster. I can see potential for more advanced patterns through changing surfaces: perspectives, alignments… physical CAD!

[Via Compradiccion]

De título original “The Green Machine”, éste documental de Odisea (2006) expone ejemplos privados y públicos, empresariales y nacionales, relacionados con energías renovables, construcción ecológica, sostenibilidad, etc. Ésta parte en concreto trata de cómo Chicago es una de las ciudades con mejores intenciones al respecto. Un parque verde en el tejado de cada rascacielos es uno de sus objetivo, y el ayuntamiento ya tiene uno.

[Upload de VSG71]

Drak Roasted Blend compiles series of great photos of all kinds with the common denominator of being stuff you probably haven’t seen ever before (and you probably won’t in person). Here are some examples of “inventions” and “design problem solving”: Lords of the Logistics, Part 3 (Necessity is the mother of invention)

Drawings of retro-futuristic-looking unrealized buildings in moscow from 1920 to 1950

Probably my favourite topic about crazy empires like the ancient Rome, Hitler’s Germany, the Far East and this red Russia: huge magnificent buildings of self-propaganda. The Palace of the Soviets proposal pictured below is dated 1934 and measured 415 metres high. [Via BoingBoing]

This must be the biggest [???] ever

Does anyone know what the heck is this monster? Where is it? Can I conquer the world with it? [Via Verparacreer]

Some photos of the tallest bridge which Norman Foster has designed in France and everyone has already written about

To inaugurate a new AVTG category —Construction, involving all kinds of giant architecture and engineering wonders so much loved by me—, here’s no less than the tallest bridge ever. Should you not know about it yet, I’ll tell you it’s located in France and designed by Norman Foster, one of its 7 pillars heighing 243 meters —already more than the Eiffel Tower— and is 2,5 kilometers long. Press release and Official site. More photos after “more”. [Thanks Mery G]

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Photographs of Tokio’s Matrix’s-Zion-looking water routing system

No way Japaneese could build standard sewers. They had to be just as out of this world as everything they do. [Via Core77]

Former USSR Antonov 225 “Mriya” is the biggest and most impressive jet plane ever built

I firstly saw a documentary on the 225 on TV and I was astonished. You have to see it in movement. Initially built for launching the Russian Space Shuttle into space, this giant currently serves as a heavy lift (up to 200 tons!) transport. Including itself, the fuel and the loads, the max take-off weight is 600 tons! Its strong 32 wheels allows landings in any kind of terrain. Well, there are so many astonishing facts! Check out the best source for photos and information about the Mriya I have found.

If you like the Brasilia City concept you’ll be interested in this settlement based in concentric circles

It was founded in 1921. The public buildings are in the center, the homesteads in the inner circle, the farm buildings in the next, and beyond those, ever-widening circles of gardens and fields. Unfortunately I haven’t found much more than this and the photo below about this Israeli city.