http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/11898621.html 

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/

SEE:
Architects who design residences like steel-and-glass skyscrapers, only tiny!
FEEL:
The pain of residents with no privacy and massive electric bills! 

Well, even though it IS a "Portal of Souls" as in The Night Journey, the style might not be so much my style - if a similar underwater maze partially submerged was found in Europe, that might be more like it. I've never really done Mayan or even Egyptian stuff, which seems like a more simple architectural style than (Medieval) Arabian or European - but of course in any Quake map there's a good deal of "make up whatever the hell you want." I do admit to the underground mazes tendency though - lol, just wait for Arcanum.

Re: Lunaran link
I still don't understand why there aren't "stylistic" buildings that are just totally reactionary. I guess every huge company just has to go with the modernism/futurism style in order to seem cutting-edge. 

http://www.neatorama.com/2008/08/05/gargantuan-scale-model-of-shanghai-in-2020/

http://flickr.com/photos/larryncelia/250924174/sizes/o/in/photostream/ 

Those pics remind me of Kowloon Walled City on a ridiculously grand scale. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City Obviously the density is much, much less, considering KWC had 50,000 inhabitants on 0.026 km� before it was razed, but there's something just...busy feeling about those pics that gives that same vibe. Lots of people in a (relatively) small area...

More cool KWC pics + info here: http://www.doobybrain.com/2007/08/22/kowloon-walled-city-city-of-darkness/

I highly recommend the book. 

I had no idea about Kowloon Walled City! Sounds like something from a SF book... 

looks completely badass. o.o 

Try to forget that I'm linking to a site called 'pink tentacle.'

http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/photos-tetrapod-beaches-of-japan/ 

I love tetrapods, too bad they are actually useless... =\ 

too bad they are actually useless

That's what they said about crates... 

and triangular lights 

Ok, it's not great but brings some nice ideas perhaps...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpaJOGIhcyE&feature=related 

http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0076.jpg

Lessee.
A masculine huge-jawed hero testpilot and his comic sidekick small mechanic guy test fly a german war booty aircraft.

A woman is involved too.
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0069.jpg

But the real beauty is the aircraft, perhaps the best looking ever constructed in the history of aviation.
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0064.jpg 

The link to the gallery
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/falvy_pics.html

This is all just so... strong, by itself:
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0079.jpg
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0097.jpg 

http://www.materialicious.com/

and his other site

http://www.stairporn.org/

and something linked from it

http://www.richardpowers.co.uk/library_landing.php?id=2 

at the other end of the timeline, Opacity hasn't been killed in the collapse of an old insane asylum yet and now has 100+ albums:

http://www.opacity.us/ 

This bank:
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/design/What--A-Bank-/

It's like walking around in an ipod 

That bank is SO not going to go bankrupt. It probably has its own time travel device built into it to prevent such catastrophes.

Also, to get an account there the bouncer has to think you're cool enough. 

http://zulmiradesign.blogspot.com/

http://bp2.blogger.com/_5qrYlZp3an0/SCixJm96vfI/AAAAAAAAAHI/1InbMRoE7Cw/s1600-h/escavado.jpg 

Shit won't stick on it.

Sadly, what happens when that surface is tarnished? You can't change any panels or grind out or anything, since it's monolithic.

And it also probably turns yellow with time.

Plastic summer cottages were marketed in Finland in the sixties. You don't see any around...
http://www.kiasma.fi/site/pop/pop.php?tid=61&lang=fi&mo
But there were different ones... 

*Melts his way in to the safe.* Muahahaha. 

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/ny/ny-design-meetup/house-tour-bill-and-marias-cat-playgroundnew-york-062481 

Lotsa great inventions here... except that most of them didn't work out too well.
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/rotaryengines/rotaryeng.htm 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_JLIhZLxg
The future is here. Hovering rocket vehicles popping all over USA. Showdown in November.
Soon, space travel will not be the same as it used to be. 

suggestion for someone else to make for Q1SP, maybe speedmapping session:

Pyramids in Antarctica (as in, they were built so long ago that it was tropic there at the time), as in Lovecraft's AtMoM, or even (maybe) in the Bob Dylan song Isis.