Back in the '70s, NASA Ames Research Center commissioned a couple of space colony studies which resulted in these retro-futuristic artistic renderings of space habitats that can house about 10,000 people. Click through for more examples!

Yi Yvonne Weng's Explorative Canopy Trail is a conceptual design for an ecological research facility that would stay suspended in mid-air by a web of synthetic fibres and steel supports in a tropical jungle, allowing scientists to study and easily harvest the medicinal plants and live out of lightweight pod quarters in the canopy.

HUS-1 is a small portable house (25 square meters / 269 square feet) designed and built by Swedish architect Torsten Ottesjö.

What, no net? One double-bounce and you're making a splash in the River Seine.

Movie Title Montage of the Day: Watch film title design evolve before your eyes in Ian Albinson's "A Brief History of Title Design" -- compiled for the SXSW "Excellence in Title Design" competition screening.

Music: "Ghostwriter" by RJD2.

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See Also: The opening title screens of every Best