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...a couple for N.Y.C. itself:
Buckminster Fuller's 1920s' idea for putting most of Midtown under a some kind of bio-spheric dome:
Antonio Gaudi's N.Y.C. 360m/1180ft scraper for 1908. Still possible?:
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Interior:
Les Halles
LES HALLES
This was one of the most photogenic parts of a city that is a photographer’s dream. It is surprisingly hard to find old photographs of it on the internet. I guess people want to forget what they lost.
How it was:
How it sat for a period of years while they squabbled about what to replace it with:
What they replaced it with:
The sanitized market in the suburb of Rungis (no smoking):
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...a couple for N.Y.C. itself:
Buckminster Fuller's 1920s' idea for putting most of Midtown under a some kind of bio-spheric dome:
Antonio Gaudi's N.Y.C. 360m/1180ft scraper for 1908. Still possible?:
Interior:
Guess we're under achivers in the eyes of Mr. Fuller. :lol:
lol.
Prize for crazy NYC project I'm happiest never saw the light of day:
Robert Moses' Lower Manhattan Expressway
http://www.nycroads.com/roads/lower-manhattan/
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That expressway, proposed by Robert Moses, would have cut off the Lower East Side from the rest of the city. Good thing it never got to see the light of day.
I agree. Forget the traffic; the areas that would have been razed for the LME are now some of the nicest neighborhoods in New York.
Tsk, tsk. The geniuses at NYC Skyline completely misunderstood this topic. :roll:
http://www.theopinion.com/newyorkcit...num=1065468074
LOL!!!
You made my night with that one. :lol:
Can it be?
Are there such dimwits?
Lol.
Has no one any sense of irony anymore?
Its quite ironic really.Originally Posted by TLOZ Link5
Let them complain.
It gives them a sense of self-being. :lol:
Tsk, tsk. The geniuses at NYC Skyline completely misunderstood this topic.ops:
Anyway, I have some additions to the list:
Empire State Building
Chrysler Building
Sears Tower
Taipei 101 (set to offically open fall 2004; WTB until Shanghai WFC)
John Hancock Center (Chicago)
I wonder if this counts:
USAF Museum
http://www.wpafb.af.mil/museum/pa/cf.htm
This is in Ohio.
It houses numerous planes in these hangars and it is currently in the middle of a major expansion plan.
Yes, definitely The Chrysler;
the most sensible and beautiful project ever conceived in and for the modern world.
Anymore wacky 'n zany pipedreams though?, esp. for
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