In the late nineteenth century, the Chicago School pioneered steel-frame construction and the use of plate glass, building some of the first modern skyscrapers. The city brought about a neo-classical revival with its “White City” built for the 1893 World’s Exposition yet subsequently paved the way for Art Deco with for example this Palmolive Building which ...

Welcome to The Gatehouse today! Last week, we started to explore dieselpunk architecture with features of New York City’s RCA Building and Times Square. Stefan from Paris contributed an artwork of his own to our mini-series, entitled “Underworld.” Stay tuned, for Chicago is next!...

New York City is not surprisingly the center stage of many dieselpunk works of fiction. The quintessential dieselpunk film, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), gave us a glimpse of a skyscraper city beautifully lit up at night by enormous floodlights. Frank Miller called the setting of the 2008 film The Spirit, “mythic ...

To satisfy your lust for cyberpunk imagery, we present this beautiful futuristic cityscape today by one Randall from Canada. Click here for a larger version or visit the artist’s profile to see more of his work—lots of good stuff there, we assure you!