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New York City as it might have been 200 years of visionary architectural plans for unbuilt subways, bridges, parks, airports, stadiums, streets, train stations and, of course, skyscrapers

Never Built New York shows us the visionary architectural ideas of the city's greatest dreamers across two centuries of New York City history. Nearly 200 proposals spanning 200 years encompass bridges, skyscrapers, master plans, parks, transit schemes, amusements, airports, plans to fill in rivers and extend Manhattan, and much, much more. Included are alternate visions for Central Park, Columbus Circle, Lincoln Center, MoMA, the UN, Grand Central Terminal, the World Trade Center site and other highlights such as Alfred Ely Beach’s system of airtight subway cars propelled via atmospheric pressure; Frank Lloyd Wright’s last project, his Key Plan for Ellis Island, on which he would have developed his dream city; Buckminster Fuller’s design for Brooklyn’s Dodger Stadium, complete with giant geodesic dome to shield players and fans from the rain; developer William Zeckendorf’s Rooftop Airport, perched on steel columns 200 feet above street level, spanning from 24th to 71st Street, Ninth Avenue to the Hudson River; John Johansen’s Leapfrog City proposal to create an entirely new neighborhood atop the tenements of East Harlem; and Stephen Holl’s Bridge of Houses, offering options from SROs to modest studios to luxury apartments on a segment of what is now the High Line.

Fact-filled and entertaining texts, plus sketches, renderings, prints and models drawn from archives across the country tell stories of ideas that would have drastically transformed the way we inhabit and move through the city.

Read Never Built New York Greg Goldin Sam Lubell Daniel Libeskind 9781938922756 Books

"Great book for family that lives in NYC and passes things every day which could have been something totally different. Good coffee table book."

Product details Hardcover 408 pages Publisher Metropolis Books; 1 edition (October 25, 2016) Language English ISBN-10 1938922751

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Never Built New York Greg Goldin Sam Lubell Daniel Libeskind 9781938922756 Books Reviews :

Never Built New York Greg Goldin Sam Lubell Daniel Libeskind 9781938922756 Books Reviews

• For anyone with an interest in New York City's history, in its architecture or in civil engineering, this is a book to own. It's well illustrated and articulately written. One can only wonder how this City would have been transformed had some of these actually been built.
• Never Built New York might be classed as an architecture book, but it's also a bit like science fiction. Imagine a world where the city had decided to fill in the Hudson River, let Buckminster Fuller cover Manhattan with a clear dome, or (worst of all) allowed Frank Gehry to design the Hudson Yards. Some of the projects are mundane, and others are insane, but NBNY shows you all the alternate timelines that could have been and explains why we live in this reality instead of one with a pneumatic subway.
  
  The authors do a fantastic job of explaining New York's invisible architectural history in an engaging and accessible way, and since each project is given its own focus, the book is interesting both to flip through and to read cover-to-cover. The book itself is wonderfully designed and produced; I love that there's no dust jacket to worry about, and the renderings, model photos and reproductions are all *so crisp.*
  
  Bottom line, I give Never Built New York 5/5 crazy unbuilt towers. Read it and be glad that you don't (yet) live under a dome.
• The architects and planners in the family loved this. A big, big hit as Christmas gift. People who just like NYC enjoyed it too. Didn't expect so much "historical" info but it was much appreciated. Just about everybody spent some time with this.
• Great book for family that lives in NYC and passes things every day which could have been something totally different. Good coffee table book.
• WOW!!! Fascinating look at what might have been (some great ideas, some not-so-great ideas). Get lost in this for a few hours!
• I could spend hours with this book. A delightful journey through what could have been through the hundreds of years history of NYC
• This is an impressive "coffee table book" with fascinating photos, diagrams, and primary sources which cause one to consider "what if..." regarding the development of Manhattan. It was delivered promptly and is being enjoyed by the recipients.
• Great gift for expatriate New Yorkers!