POST ridiculous architectural ideas from your CITY - Page 5

statler · #81 Posted **Jul 8, 2008, 4:14 PM**

Some Boston (or actually, right outside of Boston)

Stolen from poster Boston02124 in this thread on ArchBoston.com

What was built is barely an improvement:

Lecom · #82 Posted **Jul 8, 2008, 6:41 PM**

^They dare call that "ultra modern"?

Vashon118 · #83 Posted **Jul 8, 2008, 7:30 PM**

Quote:

Originally Posted by ethereal_reality

A globe museum taller than the Empire State Building.

How the bloody hell did they plan on getting a full-sized ship in that sucker?

ethereal_reality · #84 Posted **Jul 8, 2008, 7:57 PM**

Here's another 'globe' idea. This time for Coney Island.

Comparison in height (from left to right) Philly City Hall, New York's Flatiron Bldg,
Boston's Bunker Hill Monument, Chicago's Masonic Bldg, the Washington
Monument, and New York's Park Row Bldg.

Illustration from 'delirious new york' by rem koolhaas

ethereal_reality · #85 Posted **Jul 30, 2008, 8:44 PM**

subterranean city (in an orb)

Patrick · #86 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 7:50 AM**

Yikes, what are those big poles used for sticking through Manhattan?

ethereal_reality · #87 Posted **Aug 1, 2008, 11:03 PM**

ventilation

America 117 · #88 Posted **Aug 2, 2008, 12:51 AM**

Did they even know how to build that?

ethereal_reality · #89 Posted **Aug 2, 2008, 10:16 PM**

No...I imagine they were pretty much guessing.