Cutaway or transversal - section drawingsare mostly just fancy residue of a long - go era when technology and computer architecture visualisation was based on hand - drawn images that were often closer to art than tedious example .
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Today , when mostly CAD and computer graphics prevail the arena , the following selection of image from the past tense seems so exciting . ensure you press the “ expand ” button on each picture to see all the luscious little details ! And sense devoid to add your favourite cutaway construction in the discussion below .
Section showing the interior of Wyld’s Monster Globe, which stood in Leicester Square, London, from 1851 to 1861.
Image : Hulton Archive / Getty Images
An artist’s impression showing of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center on Merritt Island, Florida, 1974.
Image : Space Frontiers / Getty Images
1950: Diagram of a typical subway bomb shelter proposed for New York City in a 104 Million dollar bomb shelter program outlined by the Board of Transportation.
effigy : AP
1968: Drawing of the 10×10 foot wind tunnel at the Glenn Research Center.
Image : NASA / Glenn Research Center
1955: the 16-Foot high speed tunnel (HST) at the Langley Research Center.
Image : NASA / Langley Research Center
Cutaway illustration of the Neutral Buoyancy Simulator (NBS) at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), ca. 1968.
Image : NASA / Marshall Space Flight Center
Architect and city planner Oscar Newman’s plan of a massive underground sphere beneath Manhattan, 1969.
paradigm : Ptak Science Books
A family in their backyard underground bomb shelter, early 1960s.
Wylfa Magnox nuclear power plant, Wylfa, Anglesey, UK, 1965.
figure of speech : Nuclear Engineering International magazine
An early space station concept drawing appeared in the 1959 Space The New Frontier brochure produced by NASA.
Image : NASA
Tank assembly lines, 1942.
Image :x - ray delta one
Food market, 1950.
Ice cream factory, 1951.
Fred Freeman’s impression of a lunar base, 1952.
Crossing the River Mersey, Liverpool.
An underwater condo complex.
Atomic power plant of the future imagined by Ray Pioch in the Fifties.
1962: The Space Needle, Seattle.
Palace of the Soviets, Moscow, concept by Boris Iofan, 1936.
icon : Glen . H
Piccadilly Circus cutaway, London Transport Museum, 1989. Illustration by Gavin Dunn.
Image : magpie - moonlight
Draft artwork for the Naval Cathedral in Kronstadt by Vasily and Georgy Kosyakov, 1903.
Image : Wikimedia Commons
1859: design of Chersones Cathedral of St. Vladimir by David Grimm. East-west cutaway.
“Aerial cutaway view of the Bank of England from the south-east” – a watercolour by Joseph Michael Gandy, 1830, courtesy of the Trustees of Sir John Soane’s Museum.
Image : ArchiPress
The Metro Rail station at 5th and Hill, Los Angeles, 1983.
Image : Metro Transportation Library and Archive
View of a proposed Red Line station at Wilshire and La Brea, Los Angeles, 1983
Plan of BBC television centre, London, 1958.
Image : tvstudiohistory.co.uk
Bonus photo: Architect Paolo Soleri rests in front of his “3-D Jersey,” a cutaway model on display at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, Feb. 17, 1970. It’s his idea of a supersonic jetport and city that might be built on the mud flats of New Jersey across the Hudson River from New York City. The structure he suggests is not just a jetport but a city, including hanging sunlit gardens, terminals and offices, hotels and theaters, and dwellings for one million.
Photo : Bob Daugherty / AP
Top image : the Dungeness B nuclear reactor , Kent , England — Nuclear Engineering International magazine
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