Posted May 10, 2010, 3:34 PM
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Was doing some reading, and came across another rendering...
http://ideas.mgstrategy.com/index.ph...obe-Tower.html
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The most spectacular project of Coney island was the “Globe Tower”. On May 6, 1906, it was announced in the New York Herald, inviting people to invest in a 700 feet high tower.
The design, of which at least two versions exist, is a structure which wants to suggest progress by reminding on the Eiffel Tower at its base and at the same time tries to appear serious by means of a metal version of the dome of the US Congress on top.
In its center, it contains a globe with 11 floors, each 50 feet high. These floors would be filled with four circuses, gigantic animal cages, a miniature train, the largest ballroom in the world, a moving, glass-enclosed restaurant, a hotel, and a palm garden at its highest level, topped by giant telescopes and searchlights.
With the Globe Tower, the entertainment village would become an entertainment planet, an enclosed other world which assumes the shape of a planet on stilts. It is a self-contained space for naive imaginations of excitement non-stop, for sleeping, eating and playing in the same space, trying to impress with superlatives of size.
It was same idea which would drive the entertainment parks, multiplexes and casino-hotels of the late 20th century, the same idea which drives places such as Las Vegas or Dubai. The Globe Tower itself was also prophetic in a financial sense: It turned out as a financial scam and was never built.
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