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Paul Goes Tall - Unbuilt Projects And An Early Concept From Paul Rudolph's Asian High Rise Period.

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Competition For Design Of The Great Tower of London - OR - Watkins' Folly An attempt to outdo The Eiffel Tower this tower in Wembley Park would reach a height of 1,200ft. - over 150' higher than the Paris original. Assembly halls, observation areas and a hotel were planned for the tower. Watkin invited Gustave Eiffel himself to design the tower, but the Frenchman declined – replying that if he designed the tower, the French people "would not think me so good a Frenchman as I hope I am." http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/mar/14/architecture.communities Construction began in 1891 on the winning design by Stewart, MacLaren and Dunn of London (#8 in the above competition entries and in the large image below the entries). The number of legs were halved from 8 to 4 and other changes were made to reduce costs. The tower reached the 150' mark before foundation issues caused it to sink and construction to cease. In 1907 the base of the tower was demolished and the site later became the home of Wembley Stadium.

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Paul Rudolph - Late Work

Burroughs-Wellcome, Cafeteria

Bond Centre - Hong Kong

Dharmala Office Building - Jakarta

All Projects Were Built.

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Paul Rudolph’s Town of Stafford Harbor, Virginia, 1966 - Unbuilt

Renderings and an image of the model of this new town by the bank of the Potomac River.

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More Renderings Of Paul Rudolph’s Work.

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Paul Rudolph’s unbuilt design for a new City Hall for the city of Syracuse, NY - 1964

The building would have been built between the city jail and police headquarters and I.M. Pei’s Everson Museum and would have been the physical and social center of downtown’s government office neighborhood.

The original City Hall, a fine Richardsonian Romanesque plie of 1892 by local architect Charles Colton, would not have been demolished as it was not on the site of the proposed Rudolph building.

In the end, the new building never was built and the old City Hall, renovated and altered, continued to serve as the center of city government - a function it serves to this day.

Had this been built there would be two masterworks of Brutalism side by side. Instead, the city built an addition to the city jail on this site in the 1990’s.

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Art & Architecture Building Concepts - Paul Rudolph

Six Concepts Of Rudolph's Most Famous Work. Accompanying Text Stated That The First Version Was Not Considered Suitable By Rudolph And All Subsequent Versions Emphasized The Street Corner And Employed A "Windmill- Plan."

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Boston Parcel And Office Building - Gruzen & Partners (late 1960's) Rendering - Davis Bite Unbuilt Project For Site Adjacent To Boston City Hall - Seen In The Background On The Left.

Conventional Tower By Emery Roth And Sons Built In Its Place In 1970 As 28 State Street.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_State_Street

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Frank Lloyd Wright - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1959) Watercolors Of Various Design Studies.

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I.M. Pei's proposed 660' project for the La Defense office district of Paris - (1971) Renderings By Helmut Jacoby. Pei and partner Araldo Cossutta attempt to realize Ferris's vision of a skyscraper bridging separated pedestrian and vehicular traffic with twin towers whose facades cascade into each other - turning the famous Arche De Triomphe which it lines up with along the Axe historique - on its head. Eventually, this plan was discarded and a new project - that included a modern take on the monumental arch - with an accompanying pedestrian plaza was built in the 1980s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grande_Arche

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Hugh Ferris - Visions For Separating Vehicular And Pedestrian Traffic (1930)

His use of a massive transfer truss and the horizontal orientation of the tower's middle facade predicts later design languages and the super-engineering of 1960's towers by architects like Kevin Roche and SOM's Chicago office.

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Government Buildings Of Capitol Hill, Albany, NY

The Capitol Was An 19th Century Folly.

The State Education Building, Alfred E. Smith State Office Building And Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Followed As The Follies Of The 20th.

The Modernist Empire State Plaza Was Built As An Upstate "Sequel" To Rockefeller Center.

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Two giants of postmodern era architecture and beyond discuss the state of the art in architecture.

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"Clean Lines, Open Spaces: A View of Mid-Century Modern Architecture," a new documentary produced by AETN's Mark Wilcken, focuses on the construction boom in...

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Raymond Hood As Rendered By Hugh Ferris.

Tribune Tower 1924

American Radiator Building 1924

Daily News Building 1929

Raymond Hood may have been the American Modernist that could have tempered the onslaught on delight and functional ornament the Europeans engaged in upon reaching these shores, had he lived beyond the age of 53.

Hood was the winner of the famous Tribune Tower competition - a competition many thought should have been won by Eliel Saarinen's "modern" entry. Though he employed Gothic detailing and ornament - a move he was criticized for - his subsequent work shows him shedding historical references for a more streamlined and clean application of ornament and massing. 

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Chrysler Building, Chanin Building - Rendered By Hugh Ferris

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Everson Museum Of Art - I.M. Pei (1968)

Rendering: Helmut Jacoby Image: Ezra Stoller

View of atrium at center of four distinct wings of poured in place concrete. Final version of staircase is the dominant feature of the space and a work of sculptural art in its own right. 

Helmut Jacoby was an architect who, like Hugh Ferris before him, did not design his own projects but instead was a highly respected concept artist who worked for many well-known architects and firms.

Ezra Stoller simply had the best eye for capturing the essence of architecture of anyone...ever.

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