Alternate/Unbuilt classical architecture.
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A compliment! Yay! THIS MEANS MORE PICTURES.
What a flashy American newspaper building should look like according to a Frenchmen.
Worlds fair Paris
Design for the Liverpool Cathedral by Reilly
Wanted to throw this out there, I posted it in another thread a few months ago.
Planning versus fortification: Sangallo's project for the defence of Rome:
http://www.fsgfort.com/uploads/pdfs/Public/Pepper F2 P.pdf
Basically these were some of the first really gigantic gun resistant fortifications to be designed after a Turkish fleet held a dagger over Rome. Instead the Turkish fleet was just loading up on water from the Tiber and moved on. The Pope wanted a gigantic series of defenses and many fortification experts throughout Christendom came to these meetings to discuss the cities fortifications. Designs for cannon resistant fortifications already existed, but the act of putting so many designers in one room really purified and standardized the designs which later made it in other parts of Europe.
The designs were largely abandoned, I think only a tiny section was built. Part of the problem was that it was expensive as balls and would have left parts of the city undefended despite its massive cost. So in the end much more limited defenses were built around the Vatican at a later date.
Planning versus fortification: Sangallo's project for the defence of Rome:
http://www.fsgfort.com/uploads/pdfs/Public/Pepper F2 P.pdf
Basically these were some of the first really gigantic gun resistant fortifications to be designed after a Turkish fleet held a dagger over Rome. Instead the Turkish fleet was just loading up on water from the Tiber and moved on. The Pope wanted a gigantic series of defenses and many fortification experts throughout Christendom came to these meetings to discuss the cities fortifications. Designs for cannon resistant fortifications already existed, but the act of putting so many designers in one room really purified and standardized the designs which later made it in other parts of Europe.
The designs were largely abandoned, I think only a tiny section was built. Part of the problem was that it was expensive as balls and would have left parts of the city undefended despite its massive cost. So in the end much more limited defenses were built around the Vatican at a later date.
Time for more stuff!
Projected Interior in one room of the palace of the soviets I think.
Possible design of the Grand Central Terminal tower. Less dominating than what was built OTL but still weak compared to the classical design of the original planned tower which I am trying to find at the moment.
Projected Interior in one room of the palace of the soviets I think.
Possible design of the Grand Central Terminal tower. Less dominating than what was built OTL but still weak compared to the classical design of the original planned tower which I am trying to find at the moment.
Here is the best that I could find. If google translate did its work, these are from the same author, an art student named Emile-James-Samuel. Made in 1871.
