Axonometric drawings are a powerful tool for visually communicating complex spatial arrangements, their unique viewpoint allowing for highly descriptive drawings that represent three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface.

Image 4 of 4 from gallery of Yesterday's Future: Visionary Designs by Future Systems and Archigram. Future Systems, Peanut (Project 124), 1984. Image © Deutsches Architekturmuseum

The Selfridges Building in Birmingham is part of the Bullring Shopping Centre and houses Selfridges Department Store. The building was completed in 2003 and designed by architecture firm Future Systems (Jan Kaplický) #architecture #futuresystems #selfridgesbuilding

Image 5 of 9 from gallery of London's Architectural Association Exhibits Futuristic Work of Jan Kaplický. Photograph by Jan Kaplický

Arch. Future Systems: Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009), Amanda Levete, Lindy Atkin. Engineering: Arup. Completed 1994. Showing road frontage of aluminium, brick and glass residence for single family. Squeezed in between a listed Georgian terrace and the Marquess Tavern. Civic Trust Award 1996, Aluminium Imagination Award, 1st Prize 1995, Geoffrey Gribble Memorial Conservation Award 1995. London Borough of Islington.

Jan Kaplický, who passed away earlier this year aged 71, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen. The exhibition

Completed in 2012 in Modena, Italy. Images by Andrea Morgante , David Pasek. © Studio cento29 The sculpted yellow aluminium roof with its ten incisions – intentionally analogous to those air intake vents on the bonnet of a...