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Never built New York: the city that might have been – in pictures
- cavemanmike 10y agoBeautiful, makes me want to build alternate history fiction around these buildings.
- jonbaer 10y agoWould have been great to see a dome built by Buckminster Fuller in Brooklyn
- Animats 10y agoFuller's 1960 plan for a two mile dome over Manhattan isn't mentioned in the parent article.[1] That was an impressive concept. [1] http://www.ecoredux.com/archive_project03_01.html http://www.ecoredux.com/archive_project03_01.html
- qohen 10y agoWould have been great to see a dome built by Buckminster Fuller in Brooklyn You might want to check out the recent SNL sketch, "The Bubble" (2 min, 20 sec), if you haven't already seen it: [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI
- emmanuel_1234 10y agoWoah, the "hyperboloid" looks very much like Guangzhou Tower. Google Images: http://goo.gl/Q4zf9t http://goo.gl/Q4zf9t
- Animats 10y agoThe Pan Am building (now MetLife?) was built there instead. Much more rentable floor area than I.M. Pei's skinny tower.
- shmerl 10y ago> Henry Gilbert’s design was a hybrid of Alfred Beach’s air-powered underground and Charles T Harvey’s cable-powered elevated railway. Passengers would be moved through a double row of ‘atmospheric tubes’ suspended from wrought-iron Gothic arches, held on slender Corinthian columns. An early idea of hyperloop?
- ChuckMcM 10y agoI really like the optimism of the early 20th century. So often architect envisioned multiblock structures that would sit above the existing landscape to provide new spaces. A recent idea like that in Cupertino went down in flames at the voting booth but the Apple 'spaceship' campus continues apace.
- icegreentea 10y agoEven though some of these are pretty old, they look fascinating. The human imagination is really something. That skyscraper bridge would look so badass in real life!
- sreenadh 10y agoI once saw some drawings of plans for Moscow under USSR. They where just marvelous. Its a pity that I forgot to bookmark it and could not find it again.