Fantastic Department Store Cutaway, 1950s
Yet another mind-blowing cutaway from master illustrator Frank Soltesz. Few people realize that half of a department store is devoted to areas […]
Category: Commercial Buildings
Cutaway drawings of stores, hotels, factories, plants, etc.
Idlewild (JFK) Airport Air Traffic Control Tower, 1952
Originally called Idlewild Airport, it was renamed JFK Airport in 1963, after the President’s assassination. This workman-like, competent but hardly spectacular cutaway […]
Atomic-Powered Heating System for Building, 1952
This was real, not Fifties fantasy: a building heated by atomic energy. Appropriately enough, the building, located in Harwell, England, was the […]
Radio City Music Hall Cutaway, 1930
When this cutaway first appeared, the intended structure was still called the International Music Hall, as part of Rockefeller Center, New York, […]
Elevator-Style Garage Car Park Cutaway, 1920
Elevator-style car parks were still quite a novelty when this cutaway was published in 1920. The garage shown could hold 6x the […]
Cutaway of TV Studio Floating on Air, 1950
This TV studio in Chicago had one problem: it was located in the same building as printing presses for the Chicago Tribune. […]
Office Ventilation Cutaway, ca 1940s
One of the great things about the old Fortune magazine was how it often treated extremely mundane subjects with great wonder and […]
Cutaway Hotel Video
What do you do with a cutaway hotel? I haven’t the faintest idea. I tossed together some amateur motion-tracking shots and a […]
Hotel Cutaway Drawing, 1947
This great cutaway originally comes from a July 5, 1947 Saturday Evening Post ad for Armstrong’s Industrial Insulation. For an extra-sized view, […]