Gravity-defying megastructures are inserted into landscapes in artworks by Ukranian architect Mykhailo Ponomarenko, who claimed first place in a competition to create an architectural fairytale.
Ponomarenko was announced as the winner of the Fairy Tales 2017 competition during a ceremony at Washington DC's National Building Museum earlier this week.
Now in its fourth year, the competition is organised by the museum, the American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and New York architecture platform Blank Space.
Ponomarenko's story features gravity-defying infrastructure depicted among painted landscapes
Entrants submit a series of images to support a short story, based on an architectural theme.
"The proposals put forth in the Fairy Tales competition create entire worlds of the imagination ? they build their immersive stories as much by what they don't say, as by what they do," said the organisers. First prize was given to Ponomarenko for his story Last Day, which describes a cylindrical town and floating-ring farms created after the discovery of the Great Gravity Anomaly in Russia.
Carved into a mountain and circling hilltops, these sci-fi infrastructures work in harmony with nature. They are depicted in Ponomarenko's images as elements within classical landscape paintings.
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