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Old Posted Jan 2, 2015, 6:30 PM
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That western L line running N-S in chicago is really badly needed, and no BRT is going to fix that
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Old Posted Jan 5, 2015, 12:05 PM
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London has so many of these projects it is a bit insane.


Selfridges Tower
It was proposed that a giant Egyptian-themed tower would have been built atop of the famous department store on London’s Oxford Street.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008...hat-never-were


London Pyramids
There have been several proposals to build giant pyramids in London. The grandioise one on the left was to commemorate British armed forces, whilst the ones of the right were giant mausoleums capable of hosting five million bodies!


Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2011/11/unbuilt...kyscrapers.php


Great Tower of London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin%27s_Tower)
A 358m (taller) version of the Eiffel Tower was partially built in Wembley as part of a giant leisure ground project by Sir Edward Watkin, a railway man who had a history of dreaming big: he had previously tried to build the Channel Tunnel a century before it actually happened.

The tower would have had Turkish baths, a hotel, winter gardens, theatres, dance halls, observation decks and restaurants, but the tower was only constructed to a height of 47m and suffered from subsidence. It was demolished and eventually became the site of Wembley Stadium.


Image sourced from The Holborn Mag: http://theholbornmag.com/2013/01/08/...unbuilt-london

Some of the proposals were even crazier: some over 600m in height and far ahead of their time in terms of design: http://publicdomainreview.org/collec...or-london-1890

One with a tram line running around it to the summit

Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2013/06/12towers.php

600m+ tall obelisk with a 1/10th replication of the Great Pyramid atop as a crown!

Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2013/06/12towers.php

A literal 610m Tower of Babel with a train running to the summit

Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2013/06/12towers.php


Imperial Monument Halls & Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...alls_and_Tower)
A crazy project for a 168m tall Gothic complex proposed as an archive, office block and ceremonial chamber for state funerals.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008...hat-never-were


Image sourced from Londonist: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008...hat-never-were


Reform Tower
300m tower to symbolise the Reform Act of the 1830’s.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2011/11/unbuilt...kyscrapers.php


Millennium Tower
The original design by Foster’s practice for the site which is now home to 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin) was for a 390m tower.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2011/11/unbuilt...kyscrapers.php


Green Bird
Proposed in the 90’s for Battersea, this was a 440m leaning tower that would have be over a third taller than the Shard.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://theholbornmag.com/2013/01/08/...unbuilt-london


The Great Victorian Way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Victorian_Way)
Not really a tower, but there have been a load of other crazy projects over the years (including building entire airports above parts of Central London), one such one project was the Great Victorian Way. This was proposed in the 1850’s by the same team behind the Crystal Palace, but this was on a far larger scale and included three habitable bridges across the Thames.

The ‘building’ (if you could call it that) would have been 10 miles long and had a 4-track atmospheric railway running along the sides. It was in effect a city within a city with shops, offices, residences, and leisure spaces. It didn’t go ahead as funds were allocated towards Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s giant sewer project.


Image sourced from the V&A: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1...ton-joseph-sir
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Old Posted Jan 5, 2015, 4:50 PM
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Some of these are amazing and it's too bad they didn't come to fruition. That Met Life Tower!

I don't know if this counts. The original design for the Dain Rauscher (RBC) building in Minneapolis was never built. I like the original design better than what they built:
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From this great site: http://www.lileks.com/mpls/dain/2.html

Current:

^that one by me.
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my wish list isnt on the drawing board yet. i just want three new towers to fill in the space between the portland main cbd cluster and the lone north skyscraper (us bank). then it would be a contiguous view looking to the west.
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The big one for Stockholm is this:


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About 10% of that area was built as part of the urban city, maybe 20-30% in un-urban topologies and the rest is now green space.
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Pittsburgh has a subway system now doesn't it or am I mistaken?
It does, and at the same time it doesn't. Its light rail line does go beneath the streets of Downtown and the North Shore, and there are 4 stations that are below grade. There are two stations, the First Avenue Station and Allegheny Station, that are elevated. However, when I think of a bona fide subway sytem, I think of an extensive network of heavy rail lines containing several miles of grade-separated (below-grade) track along with several stations.

The proposed system I'm referring to that was proposed in the 1920s was much bigger than the LRT system in use today.

The same can be said about Philadelphia's subway system. It just consists of the Broad Street and Market-Frankford lines as well as the Center City portion of the PATCO speed line. Just like with Pittsburgh, there was a massive expansion proposed for Philadelphia that was never built -- or at least never commissioned anyway. Philadelphia's two subway lines have been in operation since the 1920s, with the MFL opening in 1907, and I believe the PATCO line has been in operation since about 1970...
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London has so many of these projects it is a bit insane.


Selfridges Tower
It was proposed that a giant Egyptian-themed tower would have been built atop of the famous department store on London’s Oxford Street.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008...hat-never-were


London Pyramids
There have been several proposals to build giant pyramids in London. The grandioise one on the left was to commemorate British armed forces, whilst the ones of the right were giant mausoleums capable of hosting five million bodies!


Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2011/11/unbuilt...kyscrapers.php


Great Tower of London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin%27s_Tower)
A 358m (taller) version of the Eiffel Tower was partially built in Wembley as part of a giant leisure ground project by Sir Edward Watkin, a railway man who had a history of dreaming big: he had previously tried to build the Channel Tunnel a century before it actually happened.

The tower would have had Turkish baths, a hotel, winter gardens, theatres, dance halls, observation decks and restaurants, but the tower was only constructed to a height of 47m and suffered from subsidence. It was demolished and eventually became the site of Wembley Stadium.


Image sourced from The Holborn Mag: http://theholbornmag.com/2013/01/08/...unbuilt-london

Some of the proposals were even crazier: some over 600m in height and far ahead of their time in terms of design: http://publicdomainreview.org/collec...or-london-1890

One with a tram line running around it to the summit

Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2013/06/12towers.php

600m+ tall obelisk with a 1/10th replication of the Great Pyramid atop as a crown!

Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2013/06/12towers.php

A literal 610m Tower of Babel with a train running to the summit

Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2013/06/12towers.php


Imperial Monument Halls & Tower (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperia...alls_and_Tower)
A crazy project for a 168m tall Gothic complex proposed as an archive, office block and ceremonial chamber for state funerals.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008...hat-never-were


Image sourced from Londonist: http://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2008...hat-never-were


Reform Tower
300m tower to symbolise the Reform Act of the 1830’s.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2011/11/unbuilt...kyscrapers.php


Millennium Tower
The original design by Foster’s practice for the site which is now home to 30 St Mary Axe (aka the Gherkin) was for a 390m tower.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://londonist.com/2011/11/unbuilt...kyscrapers.php


Green Bird
Proposed in the 90’s for Battersea, this was a 440m leaning tower that would have be over a third taller than the Shard.


Image sourced from Londonist: http://theholbornmag.com/2013/01/08/...unbuilt-london


The Great Victorian Way (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Victorian_Way)
Not really a tower, but there have been a load of other crazy projects over the years (including building entire airports above parts of Central London), one such one project was the Great Victorian Way. This was proposed in the 1850’s by the same team behind the Crystal Palace, but this was on a far larger scale and included three habitable bridges across the Thames.

The ‘building’ (if you could call it that) would have been 10 miles long and had a 4-track atmospheric railway running along the sides. It was in effect a city within a city with shops, offices, residences, and leisure spaces. It didn’t go ahead as funds were allocated towards Sir Joseph Bazalgette’s giant sewer project.


Image sourced from the V&A: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1...ton-joseph-sir
London's skyline would be insane if all those were built!
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Old Posted Jan 6, 2015, 3:56 PM
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Wow that Gothic tower would have been absolutely incredible!
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Man, there have been some huge proposals for London.
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i was always a bigger fan of the miglin beitler skyneedle than the dearborne proposal.





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as long as we're rehashing never-built chicago supertalls, i also really liked dearborn center's postmodern take on the tribune tower. and i'm not generally a fan of po-mo, but this would have benn pretty damn cool to see in chicago. and at over 1,100', it would have been a real skyline changer.





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This guy for Salt Lake City. It was proposed leading up to the Winter Olympics. Nearly was built in 2002 and 2003 but it never happened.

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Nothing beats the mile high Illinois designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Chicago!



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The main thing stopping this thing from ever being taken seriously were the elevators. Most people cannot stomach the high speed elevators needed on that and slower elevators would have been impractical.
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