Architectural Plans/Stylistic Evolution in a limited Axis Victory Scenario ?

Paschalis

My Idea would be that either the OTL Axis have a limited victory WW2 (borderline ASB) or that under a different leadership there is a different war resulting in a limited victory (Example would be Webers Germany ). Or maybe even that simply Italy stays neutral during WW2 but with a POD no earlier then the Beer Hall Putsch and atleast a alternative Versions of the Nazis rise to power.

So we either have:

Axis OTL win WW2
Alt Axis win WW2
Italy stays Neutral in WW2

I was wondering how in these given scenarios architecture would evolve, what would this mean for city planning, what would be possible monuments that could have been built or demolished, what city renovations could have happened and so on. For example the most well known porject was Germania, yet its scale was unrealistic and the project huge, what would be a realistic variation or an alternative variation of the plan ? Or would it end up as half built and abandond ?.
Another example would be Mussolinis renovations in Rome, would there be large scale projects in Rome similar to Berlin ?
And how would architectural styles in general evolve ?

Now i know this is a very broad question and topic but i feel like it would be fun to discuss it that way. Feel free to give me your thoughts.
 

NoMommsen

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... regarding "Germania" ... it was actually tested if the buildings - at least for the Triumph Arc - could be executed as planned/wished to be built (massivly ofc).
They would have not. ... at least not in that way as Speer confessed either. But ... with some building technique tricks (aka not massiv stone only) thwy would have been able to be built even in the sandy Berlin ground of Havel and Spree.
 

Paschalis

NoMommsen said:
... regarding "Germania" ... it was actually tested if the buildings - at least for the Triumph Arc - could be executed as planned/wished to be built (massivly ofc).
They would have not. ... at least not in that way as Speer confessed either. But ... with some building technique tricks (aka not massiv stone only) thwy would have been able to be built even in the sandy Berlin ground of Havel and Spree.
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I think it would be interesting to see how the architecural field as a whole would evolve in such a scenrio, we know how much soviet architecture changed, i think its fair to say that Germania and the many other projects wont be the only ones and probably all wont be executed in that way regardless
 

athgtq16129

NoMommsen said:
... regarding "Germania" ... it was actually tested if the buildings - at least for the Triumph Arc - could be executed as planned/wished to be built (massivly ofc).
They would have not. ... at least not in that way as Speer confessed either. But ... with some building technique tricks (aka not massiv stone only) thwy would have been able to be built even in the sandy Berlin ground of Havel and Spree.
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For my Axis victory story/TL, I had in mind Welthauptstadt Germania and the Volkshalle being built, but looking way smaller than what they were originally intended, much like how IOTL there were proposals to scale down the height of the Palace of the Soviets, I am not an architect but even I know that these projects were way too idealistic, so what do people in here think of Germania and the Volkshalle existing, but being way smaller than the intended designs?
 
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