These are cool… I stumbled across some pictures posted on Flickr that are artists conception of moving skyscrapers that travel up and down multiple Space Elevators. I followed the Flickr link back to the website and discovered “Squares are evil“…
It looks like these pictures / drawings were entered in a 2007 Housing Architectural competition.
The level of detail in this work reminds me of the Base Station designs I posted about earlier. At some point, I need to get someone to start finding these online designs and building an entry about them at the Space Elevator Wiki. This type of forward-thinking will be very helpful in the eventual real design of a Space Elevator.
Any takers for this project out there? If so, please contact me at ted [at] spaceelevatorblog.com.
And here is a picture of SpongeBob SquarePants taking a trip to the moon in (I think) a Space Elevator. Not as much detail as the artist drawings, but you got to love it all the same…
(Drawing picture thumbnail taken from the Squares are Evil website. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version or visit their website to see this and many other conceptual drawings they have created.)
(SpongeBob SquarePants picture thumbnail taken from Flickr. Click on the thumbnail for a larger version.)
Thanks for blogging this photo.