A Futurist’s Detailed Paintings Get a Futuristic Display
Even at 54, the Transamerica Pyramid manages to look futuristic, probably because no other building in the San Francisco skyline has ever dared to be as weird. With its steep angles, pointy shoulders and graceful, leggy base, it remains wholly singular. What if the skyscrapers that grew up around it had dared to carve out their own silhouettes — or any sort of interesting shape at all?
Alas, the present does not, in many ways, live up to past visions of the future. The 21st century was supposed to be sleeker, more harmonious and decidedly spacier. And for much of that expectation, we have one…
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