Should electric cars make a noise or is the future a city of silence? Or is the roar of the internal combustion engine too ingrained our the urban psyche to ever be entirely banished. Not touched on by Dan is the noise that often comes with cars, the steady thud of a bass drum, window rattling noises that echo down whole streets, dopplering past. As manufacturers never tire of pointing out, car hi-fi is escalating in performance and intensity - most of the multi-speaker systems fitted to very high end luxury cars (Naim for Bentley, Bang and Olufsen for Aston Martin, etc.) comfortably outperform domestic set-ups costing thousands of pounds.

Seven designs that were never built, along with the frankly unsurprising news that the Dynamic Tower might not materialise quite as originally envisioned. Massive doses of architectural schadenfreude all round. Related, collapsing new buildings. More images.

Morgues, photographs by Rob Ball / Baekdal, a sort of image-driven content delivery site / projects and ideas by Tim Schwartz / no flying cars, but plane-like cars instead. Maybe / Favorite Worst Movies, with clips (see also, chumps).

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