Reply With QuoteSome images from buildings discussed in the opening article:
Broadway Temple:
Lindenthal 57th St. Bridge:
Of course.
Some images from buildings discussed in the opening article:
Broadway Temple:
Lindenthal 57th St. Bridge:
Oh my god, that ^ would have given the Brooklyn Bridge a run for its money as the most beautiful and beloved bridge in the city.
That bridge would have been in the running for most ugliest ever built. Glad they didn't go with that. It would have made New York look like a snow globe, where the Brooklyn Bridge is scaled to be as tall as the empire state building.
In reference to the brutalist structures on the first page. Ever seen this one:
Orange County Government Building, Paul Rudolph:
I recently read John Tauranac’s “Empire State Building: Making of a Landmark.” In it he briefly discusses several aborted record-breaking skyscraper projects of the 1920s & 1930s. I’m hoping to find renderings for the following and am wondering if anybody has discovered any:
Broadway-Church Building A 150-story behemoth to have been built in 1937; on a superblock bound by Broadway, Church St., Duane St., and Worth St; the Broadway-Church Corporation was set up for the sole purpose of creating this building. The building may have been designed to have Thomas St. run through it:
Tudor City Tower - Fred F. French’s proposal for the tallest apartment building in the world; part of his Tudor City.
Lefcourt Times Square Building A 1929 plan, derailed by the stock market crash, by A.E. Lefcourt to fulfill his dream of developing the world’s tallest building; on the northeast corner 49th and Broadway; to have been 1,050 feet tall.
Christian-Missionary Building 1926; Designed by Shreve & Lamb (of the ESB) for Broadway & 122nd, Morningside Heights; housed church, bank, hotel and hospital; would have been 65 stories and 800 feet; derailed during foundation excavation when a slab of stone killed several workers and litigation followed.
Columbus Circle Hotel Proposed circa 1921; 60 stories
Fox Building Plan by William Fox of Fox Theaters for a 52-story building on 47th & Broadway containing a theatre larger than the 6,200 seat Roxy.
Broadway Hotel Broadway between 55th & 56th; 53-stories; 575 ft. tall.
Convocation Tower 1921; designed by famed architect Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue; 1,010 ft. tall; planned for site of Madison Square Garden II (where NYLife Pyramid now stands). Here is a rare rendering of the tower:
If the depression didnt occur and all these beauties were constructed NY would be the most amazing place on earth by far. That is dependant of course on A-Hole developers not destroying them.
some of these proposals are so awesome!!!
specifically that bridge with apartments
Dood that Convocation Tower is awesome! I'd take that over the full-size MetLife North Tower any day. What a loss that it never saw the light of day...
The Lindenthal Bridge is eye-popping to say the least, though the idea of building a midrise over the cable anchor is rather dumb.
Dude!
^Right. This version was even more monumental.
And with Clipper Ships and Sea Planes in the foreground!
Aaahhhh ... The Future ...................
New York New York! It's a Helluva Town!!!
Skyscraper Bridges and Tower Clusters:
credit:http://flickr.com/photos/paulpablopawel/
The Skyscraper Museum has an interesting online-exhibit and video lecture-slideshow series on New York modernity and futurism in the early 20thC., which covers a lot of these projects:
http://www.skyscraper.org/EXHIBITION...ork_modern.htm
Had both been built they'd be neighbors (Convocation on the site of NYLife Pyramid).Originally Posted by Harvick2933
That image actually looks like sensible zoning.
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