The Fantastic Four’s Retro Future

'Fantastic Four: First Steps' fuses superhero flair with Googie retro-futurism, reimagining NYC in a vibrant space-age vision

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Yagmur Baydır
August 15, 2025

🌍 The latest in architecture and design, at a glance:

  • Marvel’s latest Fantastic Four film dives headfirst into retro-futurism, bringing the charm of Googie architecture to life with rocket fins, neon lights, and mid-century dreams.

  • From mountaintop observatories to glass igloos under the stars, these magical spaces to experience meteor showers turn skywatching into a celestial adventure.

  • Inspired by bamboo groves and blooming orchids, the award-winning Guwahati Airport Terminal 2 gracefully blends culture, nature, and innovation under one soaring roof.

  • Step inside Mercer Labs, where artist Roy Nachum has conjured a dreamlike world of shifting light, sound, and sensory wonder.

  • Palmanova Center set a new example for urban living at the intersection of infrastructural progress and ecological sensitivity.

  • With its golden swirl of glass and a garden in the sky, the Emporia Shopping Center is less a mall and more a playful architectural adventure.

  • Microsoft and Notre Dame are crafting a digital twin that brings the historic cathedral into the future, pixel by pixel.

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Renzo Piano

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