Unbuilt London

[Gary Oswald]

Discuss this article by @Ottens here

This was originally posted over here at Never Was. They recently reposted this article of ours by @RyanF in exchange.

 

[SpudNutimus]

Jay Foreman moment

 

[Arthur_Phuxache]

BRB just landing my Fairey Rotodyne at Charing Cross heliport.

 

[Hendryk]

Transforming Trafalgar Square into a giant multi-storey parking lot is peak 20th-century urbanism.

 

[Charles EP M.]

I like half of these are "different bridges", and many others are fancy but still understandable in the times, and then you get caught out by these huge Gerry Anderson or Dan Dare style things or optimistic steampunk Mega-City One.

 

[Guernsey Donkey]

Brutalist Whitehall

Let's Demolish Whitehall - The Architectural Review

The story of Leslie Martin’s ambitious plans to transform Whitehall is one that deserves to be known, and is well told by Adam Sharr and Stephen Thornton

www.architectural-review.com

also like the south bank feels rather russian constructionist for the 50s.

 

[Francisco Cojuanco]

Transforming Trafalgar Square into a giant multi-storey parking lot is peak 20th-century urbanism.

Basically it would have turned much of Central London into what Los Angeles was prior to the Rodney King riots (Civic Center Plaza had been turned into one humongous carpark for people who used City Hall and the courts. Though the difference here is I suppose London doesn't abandon the Tube for half a century, right?