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Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:00:48 | 23 comments | 18 images

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Can we have a lost architecture thread?

>The Crystal Palace was a cast iron and plate glass structure, originally built in Hyde Park, London, to house the Great Exhibition of 1851. After the exhibition, the Palace was relocated to an open area of South London known as Penge Place which had been excised from Penge Common. It was rebuilt at the top of Penge Peak next to Sydenham Hill, an affluent suburb of large villas. It stood there from June 1854 until its destruction by fire in November 1936.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:01:38 No.17450958

>The Paleis voor Volksvlijt (Palace of Industry) was a large exhibition hall in Amsterdam, located on the Frederiksplein, near the current location of De Nederlandsche Bank. The building was constructed between 1859 and 1864. It was designed by architect Cornelis Outshoorn, inspired by the Crystal Palace in London. In 1929, it was destroyed by fire.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:05:55 No.17450968

>The Grand Hotel Bellevue was a hotel on the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by architect Ludwig Heim and opened in 1888. Initially it was called the Hôtel du Parc, later it was also known as the Thiergarten-Hotel. The hotel was demolished in 1928 and Erich Mendelsohn's modern Columbushaus skyscraper was constructed on the site, opening in 1932.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:09:00 No.17450978

>Hotel Excelsior was a hotel in Berlin, Germany. It occupied number 112/113, Königgrätzer Straße (today's Stresemannstrasse) on Askanischer Platz in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It was one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in Europe, until its destruction during World War II.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:10:50 No.17450985

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>>17450978
Paris has better looking houses at every corner

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:11:22 No.17450986

>Pennsylvania Station (often abbreviated to Penn Station) was a historic railroad station in New York City that was built for, named after, and originally occupied by the Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR). The station occupied an 8-acre (3.2 ha) plot bounded by Seventh and Eighth Avenues and 31st and 33rd Streets in Midtown Manhattan. Because the station shared its name with several stations in other cities, it was sometimes called New York Pennsylvania Station. Originally completed in 1910, the aboveground portions of the building were demolished between 1963 and 1966, and the underground concourses and platforms were heavily renovated to form the current Pennsylvania Station within the same footprint.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:13:42 No.17450992

One of the saddest things to do is look at pre-war photos of German cities.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:23:53 No.17451018

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>The Anhalter Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, approximately 600 m (2,000 ft) southeast of Potsdamer Platz. Once one of Berlin's most important railway stations, it was severely damaged in World War II, and finally closed for traffic in 1952, when the GDR-owned Deutsche Reichsbahn rerouted all railway traffic between Berlin and places in the GDR avoiding the West Berlin area.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:25:21 No.17451020

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Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:29:05 No.17451028

>The Neue Elbbrücke was originally decorated with two neogothic towers before these were destroyed during the bridge's widening in 1959.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:36:20 No.17451045

>The Carlton Hotel was a luxury hotel in London that operated from 1899 to 1940. It was badly damaged by German bombing in 1940. The British government requisitioned the building in 1942. After the Second World War the shareholders of the hotel sold the lease of the site, and the surviving parts of the building were demolished in 1957–58.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:39:25 No.17451053

>>17450992
Well, start shit, get hit

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:46:34 No.17451070

>The Chicago Federal Building in Chicago, Illinois was constructed between 1898 and 1905 for the purpose of housing the Midwest's federal courts, main post office, and other government bureaus. It stood in The Loop neighborhood on a block bounded by Dearborn, Adams and Clark Streets and Jackson Boulevard. The site held an 1880 post office, courthouse and customhouse which was cleared to make way for the new building.[1] The 1905 building was itself demolished in 1965 and replaced with the Kluczynski Federal Building.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:52:24 No.17451082

>The old Public Library of Cincinnati was decorated with cast iron spiral staircases, checkerboard marble floors and five tiers of alcoves with the capacity to hold 300,000 books. The building was demolished in 1955 to pave the way for a newer, more modern library building just down the street, and a parking garage now stands in its place.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)18:52:39 No.17451083

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Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:02:19 No.17451095

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>Both World Wars brought significant destruction to Ostend. In addition, other opulent buildings which had survived the wars were later replaced with structures in the modernist architecture style.

Anonymous 01/22/25(Wed)19:05:37 No.17451101