Some of the most exciting buildings in history are the ones that never got built. This magnificently illustrated book captures some of the best of these – from medieval times up to the present. Buckminster Fuller’s Geodesic Dome over Manhattan – 2 miles in diameter and high enough to cover the Empire State Building – has to be one of the most ambitious in this book. There’s even a project from Western Australia, that probably not many peope are aware of - A cathedral at New Norcia. Would you believe that in the 1950s Abbot Gregory Gomez commissioned the famous Italian engineer Pier Luigi Nervi to design a cathedral for New Norcia, with seating for 820 people and standing room for a further thousand? This amazing modernist project – with 30 metre parabolic arches built in concrete and infilled with stained glass windows - was abandoned in the early 1960s because the cost was unrealistic. Only the plans and models remain – and the vast stained-glass windows that are said to be in storage. A great book for architects, anyone interested in history and design,
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