Never built New York: the city that might have been – in pictures

I really like the optimism of the early 20th century. So often architect envisioned multiblock structures that would sit above the existing landscape to provide new spaces. A recent idea like that in Cupertino went down in flames at the voting booth but the Apple 'spaceship' campus continues apace.

Beautiful, makes me want to build alternate history fiction around these buildings.

Woah, the &quot;hyperboloid&quot; looks very much like Guangzhou Tower.<p>Google Images: <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;Q4zf9t" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;goo.gl&#x2F;Q4zf9t</a>

Would have been great to see a dome built by Buckminster Fuller in Brooklyn

Even though some of these are pretty old, they look fascinating. The human imagination is really something. That skyscraper bridge would look so badass in real life!

<i>&gt; Henry Gilbert’s design was a hybrid of Alfred Beach’s air-powered underground and Charles T Harvey’s cable-powered elevated railway. Passengers would be moved through a double row of ‘atmospheric tubes’ suspended from wrought-iron Gothic arches, held on slender Corinthian columns.</i><p>An early idea of hyperloop?

I once saw some drawings of plans for Moscow under USSR. They where just marvelous. Its a pity that I forgot to bookmark it and could not find it again.