dukeoflegs
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Not super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
Is that building doing the pee pee dance?
Also great thread topic, lots of interesting buildings and ideas I never heard of.
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Crazy architectural plans that never saw the light of day
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Is that building doing the pee pee dance?
Also great thread topic, lots of interesting buildings and ideas I never heard of.
Rabbi_Vole
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All I see is a giraffe getting a beej
Some more NYC historical what-could-have-beens:
Proposed design for Grand Central Station from the group that did the original Penn Station:
The original design for the land used for the Rockefeller Center when it meant to have space for the Metropolitan Opera:
Back when everyone thought the train would be entirely replaced by cars, the proposed replacement for Grand Central Station, a tower from I.M. Pei:
Proposed design for Grand Central Station from the group that did the original Penn Station:
The original design for the land used for the Rockefeller Center when it meant to have space for the Metropolitan Opera:
Back when everyone thought the train would be entirely replaced by cars, the proposed replacement for Grand Central Station, a tower from I.M. Pei:
You can't just blame Le Corb for all the social ills associated subsequently with 'brutalism.' There weren't going to be a happy solution for all in post war rehousing in Britain given the resources. Brutalist buildings have come around to be seen as pretty cool places to live, especially if they are refurbed and gentrified like the Barbican.
Yeah, they are incredibly unnerving.
Watching this saddens me so much we will never see what EPCOT truly could have been.
Another NYC: Donald Trump's Television City. The plan, discussed in 'The Art of the Deal', was a redevelopment on the upper west side and would have had the world's tallest building. His goal was to keep NBC in NYC instead of having them leave for New Jersey. Trump's efforts, while they didn't result in the intended development, did lead to NBC feeling pressure to stay in NYC at the Rockefeller Center.
Don't worry. Where it takes you, you won't need eyes...
Confusion Illusion
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Rabbi_Vole
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Did n Korea ever finish that hotel?
SchrodingerC
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What Hitler envisioned:
Basically a modern day replica of Ancient Rome.
Hitler loved the Roman iconography.
MagnaderAlpha
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Not sure on the inside, but the outside did finally get glass:
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For reference, what it looked like for a long time:
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what goes on inside that hotel
Rabbi_Vole
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Un's pantry
One of the serious islands projects for Monaco before the 2008 crisis, Giant Lilypads
http://www.tuvie.com/lilypads-futuristic-floating-ecopolis/
http://www.tuvie.com/lilypads-futuristic-floating-ecopolis/
Not super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
the bottom half looks like a bunch of people stood around at a party or something
Looks like five pairs of legs all awkwardly shifting their weight.Not super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
Neoclassicism was so hot back then.
You stick some skulls and rocket engines on that and you have a 40k spaceship.Palace of the Soviets. It would've been in Moscow.
Not super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
I know we shouldn't ever forget, but thank god the New York skyline doesn't have a massive garish 9/11 right now.
EatinOlives
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Not super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
That looks like a bunch of buildings that have to go potty.
Not super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
Looks like a drunk dude trying to look sober while leaning on a fence.
One of the serious islands projects for Monaco before the 2008 crisis, Giant Lilypads
http://www.tuvie.com/lilypads-futuristic-floating-ecopolis/
this where call of duty BOII got the idea?
riskybusinesstomcruise
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Ugh, I should have chose to study Architecture over Engineering.
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While we are on the topic of a Manhattan airport, I always find it cool to imagine the Empire State Building as the blimp dock it was intended to be
Now let's put it all together:
Elitist1945
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The Autumn Wind
Haha, yeah. Hard to tell image size on mobile.
Bam Bam Baklava
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Isn't architecture one of most unemployed sectors in the economy?
Why stop the second one? That looks beautifulIn my home city (Dortmund) there were plans to replace the central station
with the "Ufo":
These plans were scrapped rather fast.
There were similar plans in Stuttgart, Stuttgart 21, and building already started before it was scrapped due to heavy resistance by the citizens.
The central station was supposed to go underground:
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to:
/I guess those are not that crazy :|
Suikoguy
I whinny my fervor lowly, for his length is not as great as those of the Hylian war stallions
In my view, very few things qualify for the use of "wat" but, yes. That qualifies.
riskybusinesstomcruise
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Haha, probably. What a cruel place the world is.
Along the same lines of that plan to dam the Mediterranean was the Reber Plan which was a proposal to build a land bridge from San Francisco to Oakland and several other dams to split San Francisco Bay into smaller freshwater lakes.
It's a good thing it never happened because later studies showed that it would ecologically destroy the Bay and the smaller lakes probably would have just dried up.
It's a good thing it never happened because later studies showed that it would ecologically destroy the Bay and the smaller lakes probably would have just dried up.
Robot Pants
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This concept for Icelandic power lines
Those buildings look like they need to peeNot super crazy but I always preferred the United Architects proposal for WTC more than what we got.
Ether_Snake
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Bit smaller scale, the London trampoline bridge:
This is the least bad idea in the thread.
That's a representation of the inevitable crash that follows a stock market bubble. A design truly worthy of North Korea.
John Kowalski
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I hope there is an afterlife for buildings because i really really want to see this one day.
This concept for Icelandic power lines
This is fucking cool.
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Rabbi_Vole
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Isn't that Gannon's tower from OoT?
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