What's the most beautiful building planned for your city but never erected?

[MonctonRad]

Originally Posted by Architype

The bridge would be such an obvious asset, but Haligonians will never be able to accept such a disruption to their established social urban fabric.

Rule #1 in Halifax:

Thou must never do anything to disturb the peace and tranquility of the esteemed residents of the deepest south end. Their luxury and comfort must be preserved at all costs.......

[SignalHillHiker]

Originally Posted by Architype

Wasn't the Bonavista Highway called the Cabot Highway (not Trail)?

If you think so, probably. I just know it was called Cabot whatever.

[someone123]

Originally Posted by MonctonRad

Rule #1 in Halifax:

Thou must never do anything to disturb the peace and tranquility of the esteemed residents of the deepest south end. Their luxury and comfort must be preserved at all costs.......

This seems to be true today but interestingly enough it wasn't true in the early 20th century, even though there was more wealth concentrated in that area back then than there is now, relatively speaking. The port and railcut redevelopment of the 1910's required the expropriation of a lot of estate lands, the demolition of some mansions, and lots of blasting. Back then there was a sense that the trade-off was important for the growth and development of the region.

It really is too bad the Northwest Arm bridge didn't happen back then because it wouldn't have been as difficult politically. That bridge has got to be one of the more obvious pieces of missing infrastructure in a Canadian city.

[Rico Rommheim]

Originally Posted by Martin Mtl

This is the one for Montreal... Canadian Pacific Railway headquarters. 40 stories. Kill by the Great Depression. This imposing design, proposed for Montreal’s Windsor terminal in 1928, was – rather pompously – entitled “Heavenly City”. The 40-storey building would have housed 34 railway tracks. Then the Depression struck and the city decided to make do with the old 1889 building, which is still standing today.

I guess it would have been a shame to demolished Windsor Station though. So it doesn't hurt as much when all considered.


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Shame.

Can't believe i'm saying this, but I would have accepted the demolition of the 1889 station to have this one. The pre-war skyscrapers that we got were nice and imposing, but this would have put us on a Chicago level. Would also have worked great with a Windsor Hotel tower addition, which was also killed by the depression. Put that with the Sun Life and the Cathedral and it would have been mental.

[skylinegazer]

Originally Posted by red-paladin

For Vancouver, it's Bing Thom's vision for the Hotel Georgia tower:

http://bingthomarchitects.com/app/up...-overview2.jpg
From: http://bingthomarchitects.com/projec...otel-proposal/

that was a good one. had that "finger" at the top which projected into the view cone as seen from city hall!

[dennis]

The original design for the James Richardson and sons headquarters, Winnipeg.



Source:http://winnipegdowntownplaces.blogspot.ca