THE ATLAS OF TOMORROW ✦ WING 02 OF 06
The Atomic Age & Googie
After 1945 the atom got a publicity makeover. It sold breakfast cereal, shaped roadside diners, and built a nine-sphere molecule 335 feet over Brussels. Googie architecture gave the whole thing boomerang roofs and starburst signs. Glamour, with a half-life.
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IN THIS WING
FEATURE 01
The Atomium, Brussels’ Futuristic Marvel Born in 1958
An iron crystal magnified 165 billion times, assembled by men in flat caps. The construction photos are as thrilling as the finished landmark.
FEATURE 02
Kix Cereal Sold an Actual Radioactive Nuclear Ring to Children in 1947
Fifteen cents and a box top bought a spinthariscope you could hold to your eye and watch atoms decay. The Atomic Age, aisle five.
FEATURE 03
The Set Design from Fantastic Four’s Mid Century World
Kasra Farahani’s production design imagines a 1960s that kept its promises: monorails, sunken lounges, and optimism as a building material.
FEATURE 04
Midcentury Gingerbread Houses to Celebrate the Season
Butterfly roofs and clerestory windows, rendered in icing. Case Study houses you are allowed to eat.
FEATURE 05
Glorious Retro Futurism From the Past Century
Eighty years of tomorrow in one gallery: finned rockets, glass cities, and the unshakable certainty that the future would be gorgeous.
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