Retro heavens

View of the <n>Empire State Building</n> through smog in New York City, November 1953. Photo by <n>Eliot Elisofon</n>.

A light installation from the <n>Alternative Landscapes</n> series by photographer <n>Benoit Paillé</n>.

<n>onehundreddaysofloneliness</n> by artist <n>Victoria Herrera</n> for the <n>Paris Collage Collective</n> creative challenge.

The control room of the <n>Isar 1 nuclear power plant</n>, 2009. Photo by <n>Michael Danner</n>.

<n>Victor Olgyay</n> and <n>Aladár Olgyay</n> with the <n>Thermoheliodon</n> at Princeton University, c. 1954.

The <n>TWA Flight Center</n> at JFK Airport, designed by <n>Eero Saarinen</n>. Photo by <n>Balthazar Korab</n>, 1962.

Cutaway view of a <n>Stanford torus</n> space colony, a concept painting by <n>Rick Guidice</n> for <n>NASA</n> in 1975.

<n>Core Command concept art</n> for <n>Battlestar Galactica</n> (1978) by <n>Ralph McQuarrie</n>.

The <n>General Dynamics Astronautics facility</n> in San Diego, designed by <n>William Pereira</n> and <n>Charles Luckman</n> in 1958.

Photo by <n>Denish Basumatary</n> for <n>CINEGRAMS</n>.

The History of JFK Airport: The Pan Am Terminal

<n>Space Wheel Interior</n> (1979) by visual futurist <n>Syd Mead</n>.

The collage artwork <n>Sightseeing</n> by artist <n>Thomas Easton</n>.

A still from the 1971 film <n>In the Eye of the Hurricane</n>, featuring actor <n>Analía Gadé</n>.

Crowded Skies by Shane Wheatcroft - Limited Edition. Edition of: 150. Signed.

The <n>TWA Hotel</n> at JFK Airport, designed by architect <n>Eero Saarinen</n>.

The upper deck lounge of a <n>Braniff International Airways</n> <n>Boeing 747</n> with interiors by <n>Alexander Girard</n>, c. 1970s.

The <n>TWA Hotel Flight Center</n>, featuring <n>Tulip Side Chairs</n> designed by <n>Eero Saarinen</n>.

<n>Control Room of the Synchrophasotron</n> particle accelerator in Dubna, Russia, 1968. Photo by <n>JINR</n>.