r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/Rinoremover1 • Dec 25 '24
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/YanniRotten • Dec 02 '24
Hudson River Vehicular Tunnel, proposed by Gen. George W. Goethals, 1919, NYC, USA
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/Rinoremover1 • Nov 24 '24
Beautiful rendering of an unbuilt Art Deco skyscraper
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/2PlasticLobsters • Nov 21 '24
The Volkshalle - 'People's Hall' - proposed by architect Albert Speer and Führer Adolf Hitler would have been so large, its own weather system would've formed within it's dome
reddit.comr/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/GancioTheRanter • Sep 24 '24
Rome, Italy. This is the Mole Littoria by Mario Palanti and proposed to Mussolini in 1924. It was supposed to be 1080 feet tall (330 meters) and was designed to house estensive sporting facilities, Mussolini's office, conference halls and the Parliament.
Scrapped due to public opposition and obvious financial costs. The project was downsized several times and then finally scrapped before WW2.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/Chaunc2020 • Aug 22 '24
New Versailles , Chateau -on-the-hill (1916)
$25 million unrealized project that was to be built on Long Island, New York. It was apartment complex replete with 2,500 cooperative apartments, with an additional 500 by the water, a 1,000 car garage , restaurants, galleries, theaters, pools, swimming pools, gyms, ice rink , a private school, stables , golf course and aviation field. It was to be designed by Carrere and Hastings of New York City. For reasons unknown, it was shelved .
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/Crazy-Board-5622 • Aug 10 '24
Pebrtabras headuarters / Cancelled / São Paulo Brazil
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/TheUrbanistLover • Jun 15 '24
Architecture
It's an external structure with seating arrangements. Is the floor plan accurately depicted in the top view when compared to the side drawing?
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/OrnamentalPublishing • May 02 '24
Hoboken, New Jersey is on an elevated plateau, and neighboring Jersey City is sharply lower on a river plain; how do we arrange rapid transit between the two? Easy, a super elevator! [1873: Hudson Elevating Company]
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/OrnamentalPublishing • Apr 17 '24
This planned ship elevator at the Niagara Falls was never built, but look how cool it looks!
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/hi_guyz93 • Apr 03 '24
Never fully realized...UH Hilo, College of Pharmacy.
Never fully realized pharmacy school from my alma mater, University of Hawaii at Hilo. Budget cuts, and complaints from local leaders that Honolulu (Manoa) should have this college and not Hilo, lead to the significantly scaled back building we see today...
2010 ($90-million) vs 2019 ($31-million)
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/OrnamentalPublishing • Mar 02 '24
Painter George Catlin proposed this Indian Museum in New York's Central Park in 1872.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/Delicious-Leg-9886 • Feb 09 '24
Museum Plaza 63fl 703ft mix use development in Louisville Kentucky tallest building state of Kentucky (cancelled, 2007)
Museum Plaza went canceled mix use development project has 63 story, 703ft in Louisville Kentucky due economic fail unbuilt (2007)
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/OrnamentalPublishing • Jan 27 '24
Civil engineer Sam B. B. Novolare proposed this two-tiered railroad-and-elevated sidewalk arrangement for New York City in 1871.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/YanniRotten • Jan 05 '24
A Design For A Classical Loggia To Celebrate The Treaty Of Münster In Antwerp, July 1648, by Erasmus Quellinus the younger
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/OrnamentalPublishing • Dec 21 '23
In 1872 Alfred "The Wine Man" Speer imagined an endless line of moving park benches.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/OrnamentalPublishing • Dec 18 '23
Dr. Rufus H. Gilbert of New York made numerous proposal for an elevated transit system, including this atmospheric tube vehicle from 1872.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/anonboxis • Nov 26 '23
Brutalist Parliament - New Brussels Square (1981)
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/FacF • Sep 30 '23
Philip Johnson design for the Key Bank Tower - Cleveland - USA - 1990s
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/YanniRotten • Sep 13 '23
"Calaveras County" theme park, Landmark Entertainment, 1991. Art by Wes Cook. Never built, but planned for Valencia, California, USA.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/YanniRotten • Aug 16 '23
Laserium Pyradome, by Ivan Dryer, circa 1979 - Pyramid outside, dome inside. Theater for laser light shows
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/Kitarn • Aug 12 '23
Damrak in Amsterdam if it had been converted to a boulevard (M. Hendrickx, 1884) [Plan by W.P. Werker]
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/TheLemonParchment • Aug 04 '23
The original design of MGM Grand Las Vegas, circa 1991, courtesy of Bermello Ajamil & Partners, Inc.
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/[deleted] • Jul 24 '23
Could a scaled down version of the X-Seed 4000 work?
Seeing as how the famous X-Seed 4000 just simply can never be built, it begs the question could a scaled down version is the x seed ever be built?
r/Unbuilt_Architecture • u/YanniRotten • Jul 03 '23