#unbuilt project

[spyskrapbook]

“50 x 50 House” [Unbuilt Project, 1951-1952] _ Architect: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

Puente, M. (2009) Mies Van Der Rohe: Houses (No.48/49, 2G Books), Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, pp. 262-263.

[lamorenadetucopla]

[shokdecok]

One of those perfect rare axonometrics that from time to time we find. These one caught by the foundation, give us in a schematic way the main spaces of an unbuilt project for a museum. Classicism and modernity in each corner.

Drawing of the Museum for Nordrhine Westfalen in Düsseldorf (1975), by James Stirling.

[bauzeitgeist]

Unrealized tower for Cityfront Plaza, Chicago. Proposal by Robert Irwin, 1989

via The Curated Object

[bauzeitgeist]

From "The New York that Never Was:"

This proposed building was entitled “The Fashion Building” and was to be built on Fifth Avenue. It was designed by William Bergen Chalfant for Amos Parrish & Co in 1930.

[sharonleung]

highrise of homes, exterior perspective, SITE(sculpture in the environment) 1981

James Wines, a founding member in 1970 of the SITE (Sculpture In The Environment) architectural group, described the Highrise of Homes project as a "vertical community" to "accommodate people's conflicting desires to enjoy the cultural advantages of an urban center, without sacrificing the private home identity and garden space associated with suburbia." The plan calls for a steel-and-concrete, eight-to-ten-story, U-shaped building frame erected in a densely populated urban area. The developer would sell lots within this frame, each lot the site for a house and garden in a style chosen by the purchaser. The result would be a distinct villagelike community on each floor, with interior streets. A central mechanical core would serve these homes and gardens, while shops, offices, and other facilities on the ground and middle floors would provide for the residents' needs.

Whereas urban skyscrapers are normally made up of identical, stacked, boxlike units, the Highrise of Homes would allow flexibility and individual choice. The wide variety of house styles, gardens, hedges, and fences described in this intricate rendering provides a sense of the personal identity and human connection that are generally erased by the austere and repetitive elements of architectural formalism. Placing the sociological and psychological needs of the inhabitant over the aesthetic sensibilities of the architect, Wines produces a merge of suburb and city, a collage of architectures collectively created by its inhabitants and by the art of chance. Developers considered Battery Park City, New York, as a possible location for the project, but it was never built.

MoMA