12 provocative concepts that could greatly change the appearance of famous buildings (13 photos)

Just imagine if the buildings we know started to look like this!





We are showing you several rejected concepts of famous architectural structures, which are very, and in some cases completely radically different from how they look now. Some of these works participated in construction competitions, but ultimately gave way to other options, and some represent an attempt to modernize something that already exists. Moreover, there are some really wild sketches here.

1. Concept by German architect Friedrich Goesling for the Berlin Reichstag, 1872



2. Grand Hotel Colosseo in Rome, designed by Superstudio in 1969





3. A 1936 project that allowed you to drive to the top of the Eiffel Tower by car



4. One of the original designs for the Sydney Harbor Bridge



It shows that city planners could have built a much more impressive three-sided structure. The bridge itself was opened in 1932.

5. Golden Gate Bridge with desalination plant and power plant for clean drinking water and energy



This idea from the 1990s was not implemented due to the high cost of the project.

6. Karl Friedrich Schinkel's 1834 plan for the royal palace on the Acropolis of Athens



7. The original 1989 design of the Time Warner Center in New York



The two-tower complex was built in 2003.

8. Temple of the Providence of God in Warsaw and 5 more options for what it could be



9. Several concepts for the Space Needle in Seattle, Washington. Late 1950s, early 60s



The tower was built in 1961.

10. One of the options for the Peace Palace project in The Hague, the Netherlands



By Willem Kromhout, 1910. The palace was built in 1913.

11. Plan to transform the Paris Pantheon into a temple of the French Republic, designed by Charles de Wailly in the 1790s



The pantheon itself was founded in 1758.

12. Metropolitan Life North Tower in New York



The planned height of the skyscraper is 396 meters. Construction began in 1929, but the tower was never completed due to the Great Depression. The MetLife Tower skyscraper standing nearby emphasizes how different the current appearance of the Metropolitan Life North Tower is from the planned one.