Never Built New York

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 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.

  • pg. 008 THE PARADOX OF THE UNBUILT by Daniel Libeskind
  • pg. 010 DRIVING TO EMPIRE by Greg Goldin and Sam Lubell
  • pg. 030 CITYWIDE
  • pg. 100 DOWNTOWN MANHATTAN
  • pg. 178 MIDTOWN MANHATTAN
  • pg. 258 UPTOWN MANHATTAN
  • pg. 328 THE BRONX & QUEENS
  • pg. 368 BROOKLYN & STATEN ISLAND

  • ISBN

    9781938922756
  • Title

    Never Built New York
  • Author

    Greg Goldin; Sam Lubell
  • Publisher

    Metropolis Books
  • Publication year

    2016
  • Binding

    Hardcover
  • Language

    English

Never Built New York

Cite: "Never Built New York" 04 Nov 2016. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/798726/never-built-new-york> ISSN 0719-8884

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