Your city's greatest architectural loss

[BigKidD]

Not technically my city, but interesting architectural losses/changes nonetheless,
Old Post Office in downtown Pittsburgh,


Replaced by a park and parking lot.
Not much of any architectural losses in the next photos expect for the Wabash terminal(below), but an amazing change nevertheless,

The Point before the Gateway Center

During the redevelopment,

Current,

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[goblin king]

México-Tenochtitlán destruction by the spaniards.







Mexico City today

[BigKidD]

A few from Erie, PA
website-http://www.cardcow.com/c/64857/1/us-...sylvania-erie/
City Hall

Academy

The majority of everything in this postcard-Lawrence Hotel

Commerce Building

Downing Building-either the edifice was changed or razed

Central High School

A lot of buildings in this postcard

The majority of the buildings in this postcard-looks like 10th and Peach

[Caernavon]

Originally Posted by The Nerd

Detroit has FAR too many to name. Most disconcerting are buildings that have been scavenged so much that there is nothing left.

Michigan Theater (The One Used in Eminem's 8-Mile and Rap Video) Converted into parking in the late 1970s

That's just unbelievably sad. In a way it's almost worse that they left the corpse around to remind people how beautiful it used to be. Better that they'd just knocked it down.

[Lecom]

Those Fort Worth and Cansas City ones are really sad.

[Swede]

For Stockholm the greatest loos IMO was the old castle/palace Tre Kronor, "Three Crowns", as in the lesser national coat of arms (and in modern times the national hockey team)

It burnt down in 1697
It changed alot over the years, started out in the 1200s as a simple fortified tower and grew bigger and bigger as the central goverment and Sweden grew more powerful.









image sources: Wiki and http://hem.bredband.net/johava/WASA.htm

What replaced it is this boring thing built in the 1700s

by Martin Hapl on flickr

[GCZ]

Worst for Helsinki:

Before:



After:

[Skyliner]

Definitely not Greenville's most significant architectural loss, but probably our most visible loss, The Woodside Building.



Now standing in its space, Wachovia Place.

[ignatius]

Kansas City...

Gone...






Building and crowds like this gone too...




One of 4 train stations downtown KC..

[Tom Servo]

The list of greatest losses in Chicago is a list that seems to go on forever. Just look at old pictures of this city, and then walked around it; it's dismal. But I think it's a shame that less than 10 percent of all the Chicago School still stands. And we're getting closer to the day when we'll have no more Sullivan. In my opinion, MOST of this city's great architecture no longer stands. I hear a lot of talk about Chicago's "great architecture" today. I don't see it. This city is a postmodern tragedy.
Anyway... let's see... these are some Chicago School buildings:

1. The Home Insurance Building 1883-85, William Le Baron Jenney - the world's first skyscrapper

2. Masonic Temple Building 1893, Burnham & Root

3. Stock Exchange Building 1893-94, Adler and Sullivan

4. Marshall Field Wholesale Store 1885-87, H. H. Richardson

5. Third McVicker's Theatre 1885, Adler and Sullivan

6. Schiller Building 1892, Adler and Sullivan

7. Chamber of Commerce Building 1888, Baumann and Huehl

8. Columbus Memorial Building 1893, Boyington

9. Great Northern Hotel 1890-92, Burnham and Root

10. Ashland Block 1891-92, Burnham and Root

11. Women's Temple 1891-92, Burnham and Root

12. Chicago Opera House 1884-85, Cobb and Frost

13. Tacoma Building 1887-89, Holabird and Roche

The list could keep going. These are just all the great buildings I can think of by prominent Chicago architects.






Oh yeah... someone a while back talked about how great of a loss The White City was. Well, almost all of those buildings were temporary, and they weren't very good either. I think Sullivan said it best: “it set architecture back 50 years”

[CarlosV]

NEW YORK CITY

too many to mention, but I love this tower..(center)....was demolished in 1955 to make more room for the Brooklyn Bridge approach....It was the Tallest building in the world when completed in 1890 !!!





Brooklyn Bridge Entrance Ramp - former site of the World Building and the Tribune BuildingLocated on Park Row – where the access ramps to the Brooklyn Bridge are now located – the New York World Building, the Tribune Building, and the extant New York Times Building formed a triumvirate of high-rise headquarters for major news organizations. These prime sites on Park Row, across from City Hall, placed these organizations at the center of political New York. One of the first high-rise elevator buildings was Richard Morris Hunt's 1874 Tribune Building, a brick and masonry structure topped by a distinctive clock-tower and spire. Its height was increased several stories in later additions. Completed in 1890, the World Building, (also known as the Pulitzer Building) was commissioned by editor Joseph Pulitzer as a headquarters for his paper the New York World. Designed by the prolific skyscraper architect George B. Post, it was the first building in New York to surpass in height the 284-foot spire of Trinity Church. The number of stories is disputed: estimates range from the 26 stories claimed by the World to the 16 or 18 suggested by recent scholars. The World and Tribune buildings were demolished in 1955 for the expanded automobile entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.

[DecoJim]

Originally Posted by AdrianXSands

I hear a lot of talk about Chicago's "great architecture" today. I don't see it. This city is a postmodern tragedy.

While I agree with you that many horrible losses have occured (I have a copy of the book "Lost Chicago" afterall), I think you are being a bit too hard on the city. There still large numbers of buildings from various eras including Art Deco and International Style structures by well known architects. The problem is that the important older buildings just can't be put in a museum; businesses need to be convinced that restoring and maintaining the historic structures is the right thing to do.

If Chicago does not have great architecture, please name some cities that do. It seams that this thread shows that most cities have lost many great works.

[Master Plan Dan]

Originally Posted by Caernavon

That's just unbelievably sad. In a way it's almost worse that they left the corpse around to remind people how beautiful it used to be. Better that they'd just knocked it down.

Holy man that is sick... why not just get rid of it! So sad to see the mangled remains of buildings like that!

Dan

[Exodus]

This has been discussed here before. To check out what I think is Detroits greatest loss when it comes to skyscrapers, click this link and pull down.

http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/show...=120874&page=4

[J_Taylor]

from the East Bay

And the rail route that went with it.

Also in SF, the Sutro Baths


Ocean Beach


(its hard to find photos of it)

[SuburbanNation]

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[Front_Range_Guy]

Colorado Springs biggest architectural and cultural loss?

The Burns Opera House. Bulldozed in 1958, the site has been a parking lot ever since.

[Deeko]

Greetings.

The greatest losses to my nearest city of Dundee, Scotland would be the Town House designed by William Adam and completed in 1731. It was demolished in 1932 and is sorely missed by Dundonians.



Aso the Royal Arch. It was built in 1848 to celebrate the first visit by a monarch since the 17th century. It was demolished in early 1964 to make way for the approach roads to the Tay Road Bridge, which will be lucky if it's still standing in a few years.


And finally Dundee West railway station. Demolished in 1965.

[muppet]

argh!!!

[muppet]

more Lost London
thisll get ur goat
the Franco British exhibition



torn down knocked down replaced by this


Holborn before the war

and after...
I think if theyd left it as a ruined bombsite it still wouldve looked better




Ye Olde London Bars.



Ye Olde London Bridge From Southwark & Ye Citty Of London.



Ye Olde London Bridge.