Since its growth to unprecedented sky in the late 19th and early 20th century, was a Manhattan building icon worldwide, with recent final estimates that the island contains some 47,000 buildings. However, as with all construction, completed projects are just the tip of the iceberg architectural; Manhattan is also home to several thousand proposals unloved, incomplete, and downright impossible that never made it big in the Big Apple.
Of course, New York challenges are blind, and even world-renowned architects often have difficulties building in the city. After the break, we take a look at three of these proposals by Antoni Gaudí, Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry, courtesy of 6sqft .
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Skyscrapers Antoni Gaudí Família
designed by Gaudí in 108 and only discovered by a report from 1956 by Joan Matamala collaborator of Gaudí, details of the colossal "Hotel Attraction" are largely mysterious part, with the client and the exact site of the project is unknown. What is known however is that the project was intended for South Manhattan and intended to be 360 meters high, which if it had been built would have obtained the Hotel activity the world title to the highest late in 1931 the Empire State building (although this may be purely academic, since the only project of comparable size by Gaudí is still under construction 133 years later).
The original drawings of Gaudí, only a few basic sketches and interior designs remain, but the design has been given a new life several times over the years: first by drawing Matamala (top right) he produced for his report; then again by a group of Spanish architects who submitted the design to rebuild the World Trade Center site; finally received a design output of the 2010 television series Fringe , where it forms poignant much of the New York skyline in a similar alternate reality, but in the end different account our.
Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian Skyscrapers
With proposals such as Broadacre City Frank Lloyd Wright said he was not in favor of urban density, but it didn 't stop him from wooing a structural part of the action in Manhattan. Decades before he completed his seminal Guggenheim building, Wright proposed a trio towers to surround Church-in-the-Bowery St. Mark. He tried to leave a space between the new buildings to provide park space, and to preserve the church on the site.
The design is also the first appearance of innovative products "taproot" Wright structural system for high-rise buildings in which the floors are cantilevered out from the central core instead of being supported by columns, freeing the building facade. At the time, this system was rather striking that the press has hailed as "the first all-glass building in New York." The design feature would also be ended within two skyscrapers Wright :. The search for Johnson Wax Tower and the Price Building in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
River East Extravaganza Frank Gehry
riding high on the spectacular success of the Guggenheim Bilbao in the early 00s both Frank Gehry and Guggenheim Foundation were looking to capitalize on what appeared to be a winning formula. The result was the plan for a new Guggenheim museum on the East River, 40 stories high titanium sprawling giant with 0,000 square feet of exhibition space that would dwarf not only the original museum by Wright, but also its new cousin Spanish.
Eventually, however, the ambitious proposal has become the victim of both the Guggenheim financial problems and political and cultural climate changed after the September 11 attacks. Instead, the site is now the subject of a plan by SHoP Architects, who proposed a tower that sits less visible between the Manhattan skyline.
Learn more about these three projects in unbuilt 6sqft here, here and here respectively.
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