RTOTD #429.1

Day 429.1

You know what's really intriguing to me? Buildings that were proposed, deesigned & rendered but never built.

Maybe it's that whole "the world that might have been" thing... or like a retro-50's "world of the future" fascination, but looking at these buildings that were never constructed are just amazing. How grand the world could have been.  I mean... the whole skyline of a city like New York could have been completely different if even 1/4 of these amazing designs were ever constructed.



Met Life North Building -
Only the fat bottom part was built.



The Ghost World... the world that exists on a different vibrational frequency as ours. The world where the choice was made to "yes, we will build this". The Ghost World where we built the future that was promised to us in old sci-fi. Not the dystopian stuff that seems to be rampant everywhere.

No, the totally grand scale that people wanted to create in. Like the whole world was just out there to be molded into whatever you wanted it to be.

No, I'm talking about the stuff that COULD have been. The world we COULD be living in had people made different choices. New York, Chicago, Moscow, London, Los Angeles, Tokyo. Or even planned cities where no cities exist now.  The entire view of the planet could  have been different.





Just the statue of Lenin on top was
supposed to be twice the height of
the Statue of Liberty.

The cool designs. Like the original plan for the MetLife North building. Only the bottom part of it was ever built. And it has a massive footprint. You can only imagine how big it would have been had it been completed.



The crazy designs like the Palace of the Soviets to be built in honor of Lenin in Moscow. This one was actually attempted until WWII closed in on the Russians and they had to tear up the structural steel to be used for military purposes.



This would have housed 3/4 of a million people in 55
pyramids stacked 5 high within a giant pyramid
superstructure



The ourtight insane designs like this pyramid city designed for Tokyo that would have housed 3/4 of a million people.  Except it's a pure work of fantasy because the materials required to build it don't actually exist on Earth.

They all fascinate the crap out of me. I think it's about the boundless potential of the imagination in humans.

I mean, hell... just finding that people even came up with these ideas is like this wonderful expedition into the archeology of architecture.

If only 10% of what has been proposed would have ever been constructed, can you think of the modern wonders of the world we would have to see? Can you imagine the world we could still create?  

The world could look so much different today. I would have loved to seen it. Just for the view. Or at least get a glance at the Ghost World.