Your city's greatest architectural loss - Page 13

amor de cosmos · #**241** Posted **Aug 27, 2009, 12:56 AM**

wright's imperial hotel in tokyo, damaged in 1923 earthquake & demolished in 1967, reconstructed at meiji-mura museum

some pics of the original

http://www.oldtokyo.com/imperial-hotel-1923.html

& clip of reconstructed lobby @ meiji-mura museum:

• Video Link

Alpha · #**242** Posted **Aug 27, 2009, 7:42 PM**

The town where I live has no really remarkable architectural structure loss. But from the state, I live it was among other, the old radio tower of Muehlacker, as it was 190 metres tall and built of wood without any parts of iron! It was the tallest object ever built of wood!

isaidso · #**243** Posted **Sep 2, 2009, 10:14 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrJoe

I would definitely say the old Toronto Star building

Scraper on the left

It was replaced by First Canada Place (Toronto's tallest).

Actually, everything in that photo is now gone except that tall building in the distance on the other side of the road (Commerce Court North), and the shorter building opposite it.

GFW · #**244** Posted **Sep 8, 2009, 5:41 PM**

The replacement of this grand theatre

With this hunk of Feces

SpawnOfVulcan · #**245** Posted **Sep 8, 2009, 7:08 PM**

As far as my hometown of Decatur goes, it's definitely the original Morgan County Courthouse:

Alabama Archives

One of Tuscaloosa's big losses was the original main library on the campus of the University of Alabama, it was modeled after the main library at UVA:

Thanx to the Union Army, we no longer have this structure on campus

Alabama Heritage

Perhaps Birmingham's greatest loss was the Birmingham Terminal Station. It was torn down... they were supposed to build a larger better terminal. Obviously, that didn't happen. I think something like a junk yard now sits on the property! Exciting! The tunnel you see in the picture is now used as a redundant underpass for the Elton Stephens Expressway that runs vertically on the eastern side of downtown.

Depots in Alabama

stormkingfan · #**246** Posted **Sep 9, 2009, 12:32 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cleveland Brown

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

(

Holy piss!!!!!! That's one radical conversion!

theWatusi · #**247** Posted **Sep 9, 2009, 1:03 AM**

This historic hotel in Lansdale

was replaced with a Rite Aid

GFW · #**248** Posted **Sep 9, 2009, 5:13 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by stormkingfan

Holy piss!!!!!! That's one radical conversion!

At least they kept the roof.

RBB · #**249** Posted **Sep 10, 2009, 5:54 PM**

I'm really suprised none of the St. Louis folks have mentioned the Ambassador building - maybe I've overlooked it.

Source

Source Source

Home to one of the most spectacular theaters in the area, it was demolished in 1996 to make way for a driveway.

Source for the below

http://www.builtstlouis.net/ambassador03.html

Quote:

Was this a crumbling and has-been old wreck of a building? Far from it.

Wrecking company Spirtas got a nasty surprise when they finished bringing down the upper floors. Supporting the building's bulk over the theater space were enormous, concrete-filled steel trusses that simply refused to budge.

Taking the trusses down required bringing in a 250-ton crane. The demolition continued until early October, over half a year after it had started, and long after plans had called for completion of the project.

And the "beautiful" replacement:

X-P

-RBB

SkyscrapersOfNewYork · #**250** Posted **Apr 4, 2010, 3:01 AM**

the WTC......

Viktorkrum77 · #**251** Posted **Jun 14, 2010, 2:58 PM**

This is Brush Park, Detroit. Once home to the wealthiest of Detroiters and some of the most incredible residential architecture in the Midwest (arguably the most incredible), it now plays host to ruins and empty lots. Fortuantely a few homes have seen new light and hopefully more will be to come. Here are some of the homes that have been lost:

These homes were located in other areas of Detroit outside Brush Park:

uaarkson · #**252** Posted **Jun 15, 2010, 12:21 AM**

Detroit is the biggest architectural tragedy in human history.

SkyscrapersOfNewYork · #**253** Posted **Jun 15, 2010, 12:56 AM**

Jesus Detroit takes the cake

Viktorkrum77 · #**254** Posted **Jun 15, 2010, 1:51 AM**

Here are many more, I won't spam this thread with them so if you are interested I'll link you to two Flickr sets.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/southof...7622694919380/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/smartee...7594318407230/

MolsonExport · #**255** Posted **Jun 15, 2010, 12:59 PM**

Quote:

This is obscene.

Bedhead · #**256** Posted **Jun 15, 2010, 1:59 PM**

Must be a bugger keeping that ceiling clean.

scalziand · #**257** Posted **Jun 15, 2010, 5:20 PM**

What a shame about those Detroit mansions.

isaidso · #**258** Posted **Jun 16, 2010, 4:11 AM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by DrJoe

I would definitely say the old Toronto Star building

Scraper on the left

It was replaced by First Canada Place (Toronto's tallest).

Almost everything in that photo was destroyed in order to build something else. Practically none of it survives today.

The North One · #**259** Posted **Jun 16, 2010, 1:21 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by amor de cosmos

wright's imperial hotel in tokyo, damaged in 1923 earthquake & demolished in 1967, reconstructed at meiji-mura museum

some pics of the original

No offence but, i really don't like alot of his work.

The North One · #**260** Posted **Jun 16, 2010, 1:25 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by uaarkson

Detroit is the biggest architectural tragedy in human history.

agreed, those mansions are STUNNING!, and the city did nothing to protect them and keep them nice looking, i dont think there will EVER be anything that will look like that ever again. such a tragedy.