Art Nouvea buildings turn into clouds of smoke with the help of AI technology

Art Nouvea buildings turn into clouds of smoke with the help of AI technology

Hassan Ragab’s spectacular project blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy, with a series of images that transform historical buildings into clouds of smoke.


Architect and interdisciplinary artist Hassan Ragab has created a series of ominous images using AI technology that shake up the world of scenic design. The surrealistic creations of A State of Decay were made using a program called Midjourney.

Midjourney is a chat-based, AI-based image-generation software that can produce realistic images and artworks following textual instructions. Founded by David Holz and created by a team at an independent research lab, Midjourney seeks to expand the human imagination by exploring possible new platforms for augmented thinking.

n the images, each element of the beautiful Art Nouveau-style houses, even the glass windows, seem to sublimate at the snap of a finger, morphing into a sinister cloud of smoke and disappearing into thin air. The Egyptian artist blurs the boundaries between reality and fiction, contrasting the buildings’ hard stone facades with the smoke’s fluidity in a spectacular way.

Photos: Hassan Ragab
Source: Designboom