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TischEins

@tischeins.bsky.social

A calm illustrated world with clean shapes, soft colors, winding paths, and a quiet dreamlike balance between nature and architecture.
Would you explore this place or pass through?

💫 –sref 1353450205

#midjourney #sref #aiart #tischeins

December 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM

TischEins

@tischeins.bsky.social

A detailed steampunk sci-fi style with ornate machines, warm brass tones, grand architecture, and cinematic scale that feels rich and handcrafted.
Would you build worlds or characters with this?

💫 –sref 3008926454

#midjourney #sref #aiart #tischeins

December 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM

TischEins

@tischeins.bsky.social

An organic sci-fi macro world with fractal textures, living architecture, and surreal biological forms.

💫 --sref 1569018697

#sref #aiart #scifi #biomorphic #midjourney

December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM

Sylvia Ritter

@sylviaritter.bsky.social

Advent Calendar - Door 19. 💫
✨️️️️ Speedpainting 19122025 ✨️

A sci-fi city (blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow) with mushroom architecture and jellyfish spaceships. It is a busy night. Everybody is preparing for the big event at the end of this cycle.

https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-19122025-1277012397

December 19, 2025 at 10:34 AM

❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆

@sababausa.bsky.social

Oh, it's not even just architecture qua architecture, it really goes anti-anti-Trump 😵‍💫

To be fair, knocking down the East Wing, particularly during a government shutdown, with only a few contradictory renderings drawn up to diagram its replacement, did seem a tad premature. (Workers at the Treasury Department, which is next door, were told not to share photos—never a good sign.) Maybe this is why the American Institute of Architects had nothing to say until the structure lay in ruins—then issued a manic statement bemoaning that “the White House is not simply another building; it is the People’s House, a living symbol of democracy and national identity.” To the AIA, the demolition was an attack not just on America but the one thing equally sacred: the rules-based technocratic order that professional organizations exist to prop up. After acknowledging that the damage was “irreversible,” the statement called for “a qualifications-based selection of the architect” to finish the redesign. This bold countervision is little more than architectural harm reduction: Trump can have his ballroom, but he must bring in “the professional community and the public” (note which comes first) to make it a little less tacky.

The right has a cultural answer to the disintegration of the economic and social order. Trump’s ballroom is an expression of that: It’s a promise, backed by the full force of a corporatist, undemocratic state, that if you screw everyone else over, you can have a little glamour back, even if you can’t have direct access to it yourself. Technocratic liberalism, on the other hand, has no compelling vision. Biden’s signature infrastructure program was called Build Back Better, but it’s become clear that the loudest voices, especially in the field of urbanism, are only taking the first word seriously. The idea of “better” is a needless pain in the ass, and if you think what’s being built is ugly then you are a reactionary and should go fuck yourself. Overall, the architectural future that liberals want is a hackneyed mix of the cover art for Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein’s Abundance and the five-over-one, and all the posturing in the world can’t make the desiccated politics of neoliberalism and the worst of developer slop more than it is. (The left isn’t much better, given that we tend to have the same reverence for the trappings of the welfare state that the right would have for Prussian neoclassicist Karl Schinkel, should they know who he was.) Ceding the question of aesthetics to the right should be seen, given the mess we’re in, as a world-historical fumble. Now, all that’s left in its wake is a bleating plea for normalcy, for the old symbolic order to mean what it once meant, for the fiction that the White House is not the president’s but “the People’s House” to once again pass for fact.

Assessing the current balance of power, one must ask why the “architectural establishment”—from the lobbying organizations that are supposed to represent the field to the profession’s most storied participants—has largely failed to amass or even grow close to political power of any kind. Trump’s ballroom is in some ways the pudding-proof of the right’s successful political machine, one in which even the lowliest lumpen grifter or grievance peddler can ascend to the Valhalla of Turning Point USA. It may be true that the right is backed by the world’s nastiest capitalists while the liberal coalition has to feed an army of nonprofits and bureaucrats. (The left, meanwhile, still has to sell newspapers—and write for them.)

However, the demolition of the East Wing should impart the urgent need for architecture itself to become a political force, lest it succumb to what is promising to be a humiliating future. This may also require us to build the power necessary to reshape architecture from within, whether through unionization or the initiation of architectural practitioners into the rapidly growing left-wing political organizations fighting for a better world. That world will need architects, and those architects will need to have a vision, as Lenin put it, as radical as reality itself. This ridiculous ballroom should say to us not that the right has won and this is its triumph, but rather that these people are organized while we are not. In short, my qualm isn’t that the White House is being torn down. If there is to be a new Winter Palace, we should be the ones storming it.

December 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Sylvia Ritter

@sylviaritter.bsky.social

Advent Calendar - Door 9. 💫
✨ Speedpainting 09122025 ✨

A cute alien sacred creature with wings and a rhombus-shaped head, looking like a goddess, is forming clouds. It is busy getting them into the desired shape for a celebratory sky. In the foreground, we can see tiny architecture, sci-fi castles, and temples with their villages and bridges. The lights of these structures indicate a busy city. Maybe residents are wrapping gifts at home for the main event ahead, and thinking about their loved ones and waiting for their guests arriving from all planets of the galaxy. The sacred creature built this place (in turquoise, purple, pink, earth colors) just in time. Everyone can feel safe and at peace.
https://www.deviantart.com/sylviaritter/art/Speedpainting-09122025-1273387584

December 9, 2025 at 10:47 AM

2tout2rien

@2tout2rien.bsky.social

Les fameuses portes aux paons du Palmer House 🦚💫
Créées en 1873, bien avant l’Art nouveau, elles en annonçaient pourtant la grâce et les courbes.
#Architecture #Chicago #Design #Patrimoine #Histoire #Insolite

November 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM

Hanno Rein

@hanno-rein.de

🎉💫 We had another paper accepted last week. Garett Brown was the lead on this one. We study the effect of a substellar flyby on the Solar System and find that there is a surprisingly high probability that such a flyby could have played an important role in shaping the system's architecture.

Orbits of the solar system planets during a flyby

November 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM

Sara Duran ✨is querying✨

@saraduran.bsky.social

Wouldn’t be #QuestPit without a shiny new agent guide ✨🌙

ANNIHILATION x BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, feat:

💫 two exiled men (+ their secrets)
💫 one lunar prison (+ its horrors)
💫 a cosmic entity that wants them dead
💫 the love they’ll lose if they don’t survive

#SF #H #R #LGBT

Dark starfield background. Text reads: ‘a guide to BABEL ON CALLISTO a queer cosmic horrormance [wip].’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE PITCH.’ Under two movie posters, text on left reads: ‘encountering the unknowable’ and under Annihilation poster: ‘contact that warps and bends.’ On the right above Brokeback Mountain poster: ‘unlikely intimacy in isolation’ and below: ‘love that cannot last.’ Main body text reads: ‘On a lunar prison outpost, two exiled men uncover a cosmic presence waking beneath the ice. As their uneasy alliance against it twists into something tender and terrifying, they are confronted with the one thing they never expected to find on a dead moon: a reason to live. But the ice is thinning.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

$Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘THE COMPS.’ Three book covers below. Above the first cover (The Mountain in the Sea): ‘isolated research station.’ Below it: ‘philosophical alien threat.’ Above the second cover (The Deep Sky): ‘psychological unraveling.’ Below it: ‘fracture under mission pressure.’ Above the third cover (The Salt Grows Heavy): ‘queer, visceral horror.’ Below it: ‘love as a consuming force.’ Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x$

Dark starfield background. Large text at top: ‘SNIPPET.’ Large opening quotation mark. Text reads: ‘Neither spoke as Elias bypassed the security protocol on the keypad. The metal hatch shuddered as it unlocked, slinking back to hidden panels in the wall. They cleared the first few floors with carrion precision, methodical as Dermestidae stripping a carcass to bone. In Elias’s imagination, the gore thinned into something vaster—a time-lapse unraveling the ruin from above. Wordlessly, corridors were scoured to nothing as he and Jack moved like insects beneath an overhead lens. As the hours dissolved, their work became abstracted into a cold anatomy, intimacy pared away as cleanly as flesh from the frame until only the architecture of survival remained. When Jack hacked into the collapsed doorway to the next stairwell, Elias marveled at the contradiction—how those same brutal hands had, only that morning, traced him with the delicacy of a scalpel.’ Large closing quotation mark. Bottom right: saraduran@bksy.social / @saraduranauthor on x

November 5, 2025 at 5:02 AM

BrOwNEyEdVaMpYrE🩸

@mikashitamoari.bsky.social

Read my 3rd gay fantasy romance & lgbtqia+ sci-fi action story, Guardians Of Planet Ena. In writing this story, the queer coven takes matters into their own hands to ensure Enaphim remain unknown. We’re introduced to a new enigmatic Enaphim. 🖤✏️ 🌈📚 🌈🚀💫 💙📚 📚👀 🌈💜 📚🌎 📚 🦇🖤🦇 ✍️📚🏳️‍🌈 🪐📚 🌶️📚 🖤📚 🩸📚 📚😱 🌈📚🖤

Book cover of the legendary fantasy romance Guardians Of Planet Ena. Gracing the book cover are the two handsome gay black MCs. A forest is behind them. They wear RayBan sunglasses, jackets and hats as the sun illuminates their faces. Link in bio to all five novels.

Book III, Guardians Of Planet Ena. Your hero’s continue their lives on Planet Ena after having prevented a moon-sized asteroid from destroying Earth and its inhabitants. Luka and Makaio stand before Jahi and Bakari having kept their promises. They've delivered their children from Earth and into their awaiting arms. In this story they become acquainted with Bahadur’s immortal child who was abandoned for thousands of years awaiting his father and uncle’s return. We become familiar with the Greater Elder’s ever more so in this intimate story of family and bonds. With profound detail we delve deeper into the lands of the people of Ena including their cultures, art, architecture and lifestyles.

The histories of the Enaphim's early developments and scientific endeavors are ascertained. Peaceful human hybrid settlements integrated with pure blooded Enaphim are displayed and spoken of. A greater understanding of who the heroes are and where they come from are revealed. Healing and acceptance from past mistakes with new outlooks for the future is the path to transcendence and inner peace for those who had turned their back on the teachings of The Enaphim. Unspeakable danger arrives on Ena in the form of a portal opened from not one of their own wrecking havoc and mayhem upon the innocent peaceful lives of the immortals. Luka steps in to confront this mysterious evil alone, not allowing his friends to assist in order to protect them. They discover a new race of extraterrestrials on Earth in the process of warring with the new foes.

Will they recover or is all lost when they battle the seemingly impossible to protect both the Milky Way galaxy that shelters Earth and the Andromeda galaxy in which Planet Ena resides from an unstoppable force that threatens to destroy all life in both star systems? The ever evolving esoteric world they live in and their strength is tested in ways that it never has, resulting in them losing a precious loved one in the process.

November 1, 2025 at 6:19 AM

2tout2rien

@2tout2rien.bsky.social

New York, 1929 🕰️✨
Grand Central Terminal sous son plus beau jour, un chef-d’œuvre d’énergie et d’élégance urbaine 🚉💫

#NYC #GrandCentral #Histoire #Architecture #Vintage #Art #Inspiration #Patrimoine #USA #Design

October 29, 2025 at 7:06 AM

Lee Rudnicki

@leerudnicki.bsky.social

Roma 💫 #leerudnicki #photography #rome #roma #italy #EternalCity #architecture #italia #UrbanPhotography #monochrome

January 24, 2025 at 12:17 AM

☁️Now🤖Breezing💨

@nowbreezing.ntw.app

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