Discuss this week's topic here. :cheers:

For actual nominations, please use the "Nominate: (http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?p=7759106)" thread.

LOL slash cry. Two 200m resi towers fell over in perth, early this year that cut deep real deep.

La Llum , 500 meters 85 floors Valencia, Spain

Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle, Chicago. 610m. 1988

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=103012

Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle. Reminds me a lot of a cross between Burj Dubai and Empire State Building.

Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle :cheers:

Wow. It is Bruj Dubai? ???

Other then they were both tall and have numerous setbacks crowning to a pinacle I don't see too much resemblance. Skyneelde harkens back more as an ode to a modern ESB/Chrysler hybrid.

From Emporis....The basic form of the building was to be an elongated version of 181 West Madison, a 680-foot building across the street built by the same architect and developers.

It basically would have been a taller version of this.....
http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=117219

I also go with The Skyneedle in Chicago. I liked that tower. However, the tower would also look good if it was constructed in New York.

Seems like virtually EVERYBODY is choosing the Chicago Skyneedle.......... which is nice, but it would be interesting to see some OTHER suggestions too. :)

Almost all of the best cancelled scrapers are in Chicago. If not The Skyneedle, there's 7 Dearborn.

Anyway, here's one in HK which is the original plan for the Nina Tower. At that time, the original plan was aimed for world's tallest but they have to cut off the height because of it's proximity to Chek Lap Kok (airport). The orignal building resembles that of The Chrysler Building

http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/5/2002/12/174789.gif

Seems like virtually EVERYBODY is choosing the Chicago Skyneedle.......... which is nice, but it would be interesting to see some OTHER suggestions too. :)

:)
Central Criminal Courts.London :

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/El_Greco/4629CentralCriminalCourt_pic1.jpg

Selfridges.London :

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/El_Greco/selfridges2072.jpg

I love grand buildings.

That 2nd one looks monstrous.

First one is lovely though.

Emerald Tower in Brisbane

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=158387

It would've fit perfectly into the skyline...funny thing is, it got rejected apparently because it would look out of place in the skyline!!!

Emerald Tower in Brisbane

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=158387

It would've fit perfectly into the skyline...funny thing is, it got rejected apparently because it would look out of place in the skyline!!!

They would be spitting chips today. :)

Alot of old school ones there :D

London Millenium Tower! Cancelled as planes might fly into it.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j43/London_Guy23/67LondonMilleniumTower_pic1.jpg

Another of my favorite cancelled skyscrapers is in New York

South Ferry Plaza
http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2000/08/110993.jpg

London Millenium Tower! Cancelled as planes might fly into it.

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j43/London_Guy23/67LondonMilleniumTower_pic1.jpg
That looks like Frankfurt's Commerzbank!

It's resembles the Commerzbank except this one doesn't have a mast and it's glass.

I really like the old design for the Union Square supertall in Hong Kong. The Kowloon MTR Tower was supposed to have a crystal facade :

http://www.3ammagazine.com/features/2002_apr/images/millenium_tower.jpg

That's the Bionic Tower on the left, which I'm not too fond of. It wasn't a realistic proposal anyway.

How tall would the Kowloon MTR Tower have been?

I really like the old design for the Union Square supertall in Hong Kong. The Kowloon MTR Tower was supposed to have a crystal facade :

http://www.3ammagazine.com/features/2002_apr/images/millenium_tower.jpg

That's the Bionic Tower on the left, which I'm not too fond of. It wasn't a realistic proposal anyway.

That's the Millenium Tower, not The Bionic Tower. Anyway, the original ICC plan was around 574 m

Here's The Bionic Tower
http://liftes.ru/images/BionicTower.jpg

How tall would the Kowloon MTR Tower have been?
It's the same height as the current Union Square supertall development. The design was just changed from the crystal facade to this :

Posted : http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=8240059&postcount=144
http://netalbum.netvigator.com/photos/2006/04/28/c3331160762764831146234684176.jpg

I absolutely adore this:
http://www.emporis.com/files/transfer/6/2002/10/165041.jpg

It si the Seoul Millenium Gate and is 200 metres tall. OK it would have been a monument but it's still pretty amazing.

How tall would the Kowloon MTR Tower have been?

About 1800 -1900ft I use to have a pic of it on my wall.

:)
Central Criminal Courts.London :

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/El_Greco/4629CentralCriminalCourt_pic1.jpg

Definetely. Not building this was a crime to humanity :)

Also not sure if we could include the Colombus Tower as it seems very unlikely of happening now?

http://simonward.com/build/large/dockdev/columbus.gif

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/47ColumbusTower_pic5.jpg

It's the same height as the current Union Square supertall development. The design was just changed from the crystal facade to this :

Posted : http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showpost.php?p=8240059&postcount=144
http://netalbum.netvigator.com/photos/2006/04/28/c3331160762764831146234684176.jpg

Actully the original plan was taller and was a contender for the world's tallest building.

Actully the original plan was taller and was a contender for the world's tallest building.
The old design had a special 100 m architectural feature while the new design doesn't have that anymore. So the actual number of stories hasn't materially changed even though the height has dropped.

Kowloon tower to feature hotel
28 November 2001
South China Morning Post

102-storey commercial tower at Kowloon Station will house the world's tallest hotel at the upper zone, creating a "talking point".

The design is being finalised by New York-based architect Kohn Pedersen Fox, a firm which also is overseeing the design of Hongkong Land's Chater House in Central, Hang Lung Group's Plaza 66 in Shanghai and Mori Building's planned 460-metre World Financial Centre in Shanghai.

Mr Wong said the new Kowloon Station tower design would provide efficient floor plates in the 480-metre, square building.

The old design had a 100-metre architectural feature including a transparent atrium, which would have raised the structure's height to 580 metres.

The 102-storey office-hotel tower is the phase seven development of the 12 million square foot Kowloon Station project, now named Union Square, at the southern tip of the West Kowloon reclamation area overlooking Victoria Harbour.

SHKP has undertaken a large part of the project, including phases three, five, six and seven. The blueprint for phases five to seven has been revised in favour of taller buildings to create more open space.

Phases five and six are combined to provide two 64-storey towers, instead of 45 storeys previously. One will include a hotel and serviced apartments while the other a hotel, serviced apartments and flats. Phase three, is a two twin-tower residential project.

Amoy Properties is building three residential towers in phase four of Union Square. A consortium led by Wharf (Holdings) is developing the five-block Sorrento residential project, part of which is on pre-sale. Phase one, The Waterfront, was completed and developed by a Wing Tai Asia-led consortium. The developers are all in partnership with Mass Transit Railway Corp.

Union Square, with 2.5 million sq ft of office space and nearly one million sq ft of shopping mall, is due for completion by 2007.

I got my info from Emporis where it stated it's 574 metres. I was actually looking forward to seeing this tower constructed long time ago before I joined SSC.

:)
Central Criminal Courts.London :

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y68/El_Greco/4629CentralCriminalCourt_pic1.jpg


Wow what is that thing? It looks amazing. When was it proposed? It looks like its from the middle ages or something.

Grollo Tower and Skyneedle

- beacon of progress
- gaudi's american hotel:

http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/VISION016.jpg
http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/matamala%20drawing%20of%20Gaudi%20American%20hotel011.jpg

- beacon of progress
- gaudi's american hotel:

http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/VISION016.jpg
http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/matamala%20drawing%20of%20Gaudi%20American%20hotel011.jpg

Totally bizarre.. Thank God its cancelled.

i think the Manchester 'Vector Arena Tower' would have looked good on our skyline, but they cancelled it because of the nearby airport!

Palace of Soviets
http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/images/14.jpg

La Tour sans fins, La Défense:
http://www.defense-92.fr/photos/toursansfins3.jpg



:cry:

Best Cancelled Skyscraper: The Mile-High Illinois.

Kowloon MTR Tower

College Park, Toronto.

Eaton's department store halted construction of what would have been the world's largest retail and office complex due to the stock market crash of 1928. It would have featured 5,000,000 square feet with a 38 storey central tower on a massive pedestal. Only one corner of the pedestal (7 floors) was completed. It remains today, perhaps the finest example of art moderne on this scale.

http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/bu/?id=eatonscollegestreet-toronto-canada

Best Cancelled Skyscraper: The Mile-High Illinois.

The Illinois technically wasn't a "cancelled" project. It was a vision.

The Illinois technically wasn't a "cancelled" project. It was a vision.

Did military air space restrictions get in the way of this project becoming more than a vision?

- beacon of progress
- gaudi's american hotel:

http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/VISION016.jpg
http://www.gridskipper.com/travel/images/matamala%20drawing%20of%20Gaudi%20American%20hotel011.jpg

NO!

Did military air space restrictions get in the way of this project becoming more than a vision?

I think the fact that it was a 5281ft (1610m) got in the way of its realization. It was a sketch never meant to be taken seriously. Also, I think there's a point at which a building is too tall. To say it would dwarf surrounding buildings would be a catastrophic understatement. Think of the CN Tower's effect on Toronto's skyline and multiple it by about 3.


http://members.bellatlantic.net/~rfh2/writings/theIllinois.jpg

That Gaudi proposal seems like one of those Foster creations - bold, expressive, and very different. It'll fit terribly in the skyline though.

Chicago has some of the best cancelled projects:

7 South Dearborn - 478m (1,567 ft) - 112 fl
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7694/7sdearbornve2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle - 610m (2,000 ft) - 125 fl
http://img160.imageshack.us/img160/1307/mbskyneedlela4.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Project 2000 - 698m (1,968 ft) - 120 fl
http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/6875/project200jj8.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Wolf Point - 532m (1,745 ft) - 142 fl
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3672/wolfpointyw2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Dearborn Center - 346m (1,135 ft) - 85 fl
http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/302/dearbornctrqa7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

for more, visit: http://www.emporis.com/en/wm/ci/bu/sk/li/?id=101030&bt=7&ht=2&sro=1

I love Dearborn Center! They canceled it and the innards were used for Jin Mao.

Beacause it looks so creepy...
http://www.unfinishedbuildings.org/images/ryugyong.jpg

Chicago has some of the best cancelled projects:

They're impressive but sad that they weren't built. I would like to see a render of Chicago's skyline with this buildings and The Chicago Spire :)

ill go for 7 south dearborn

London's tallest "never built" towers -

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=526817

Vote for your favourite! :)

Someone has to bring this puppy back to life:

http://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyneedle-C.JPGhttp://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyNeedle-1.GIFhttp://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyNeedle-2.GIFhttp://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyNeedle-4.GIFhttp://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyNeedle-5.GIFhttp://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyNeedle-6.GIFhttp://wickedtallbuildings.com/MBSkyNeedle-7.GIF

Trump totally ripped off Wolf Point. Never even heard of that proposal.

I second the Tour Sans Fin in Paris, would have made a great tower for a great city.

In terms of sustainability, the concept behind the Bionic Tower is quite good, whereas the other projects didn't incorporate much of the self-sustained city motif at all. The Bionic's idea is quite revolutionary, although it has been done before (ie. Chicago's Hancock and other mixed use buildings).

damn that this tower was cancelled in the late 80s because of 1 (in words: one!) neighboring old woman who was against it, although the developper offered her a seven-digit amount of D-Mark (1,95583DM = 1€)! Well, that is Germany...

Campanile, Frankfurt
264m (300m with antenna)

http://www.thehighrisepages.de/hhkartei/ffmcampa.jpg
http://www.emporis.com/images/6/2001/12/134585.jpg
http://www.kuk.de/content/pro/1986-0300/1986-0300-px300.jpg
http://www.kuk.de/content/pro/1986-0300/1986-0300-px300-2.jpg

seqsi

defiantly 7 South Dearborn
http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/7694/7sdearbornve2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

I think Palace of Soviets (450 m, Moscow (taller than Nabtower), 1936-1941, cancelled in '41)

Convocation Tower


you can find a pic on this (http://www.infocustech.com/iftstore/proddetail.asp?prod=245&cat=20) page, but there is a great drawing by hugh ferriss in his book "the metropolis of tomorrow".

A skyscraper in Melbourne.
http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q279/duongLe_/prettytower.jpg

for me, the illinois
http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=23192&stc=1&d=1164655688

I really liked Ice Tower, for Panama :(

http://www.c21online.net/ImagenUpload/5370%20-%201.jpg

The Book Brothers' original 1924 proposal for the Book Tower in Detroit, Michigan, was an 80-storey skyscraper that would have been 1000 feet tall--the tallest in the world at that time.

http://team-miller.org/tmc/images/81book.jpg

This design was eventually scaled back and turned into this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/2074742381_6a5234cb41.jpg

Detroit's current tallest building is the Renaissance Center at 727 feet.

photo credit:
http://team-miller.org/tmc/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsgeorge/

South Pacific Center, Melbourne

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/BatesSmart150.jpg


and of course Grollo Tower V2

http://www.thecollectormm.com/private/GrolloTower3.jpg

Palace of the soviets (450m). It would be just so crazy and ridiculous to build it with that huge Lenin statue on top. Tourists would piss their pants to see it, youth would laugh to death looking at it, remaining commies would cry near it etc.

For the Jakarta. Check this out this diagram

http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/6039/250meterstowersq4.jpg

Best cancelled project on Jakarta:
1. Dragon Tower
2. Kuningan Persada
3. Megakuningan Tower
4. Graha Kuningan

The Book Brothers' original 1924 proposal for the Book Tower in Detroit, Michigan, was an 80-storey skyscraper that would have been 1000 feet tall--the tallest in the world at that time.

http://team-miller.org/tmc/images/81book.jpg

This design was eventually scaled back and turned into this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2053/2074742381_6a5234cb41.jpg

Detroit's current tallest building is the Renaissance Center at 727 feet.

photo credit:
http://team-miller.org/tmc/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsgeorge/

Interesting. I didn't know that. Is there a render of what it was supposed to look like.

for me brickellciticentre and brickell flatiron.

I know this thread is about the "best cancelled", but I'd like to remind you of this:

http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c160/DANIELPEREIRADEJESUS/Brazil.jpg

Maharishi Tower in São Paulo, 510m. :weird:

La Llum, 500 metres, Valencia, Spain
http://www.domoticaviva.com/noticias/073/La_llum_4.jpg

another photo of La Llum, this is of the base of the building
http://www.domoticaviva.com/noticias/073/La_llum_9.jpg

I really liked Ice Tower, for Panama :(

http://www.c21online.net/ImagenUpload/5370%20-%201.jpg

i thought this tower was under construction :lol:

for me, the illinois

The Illinois was a vision, not a proposal, so it technically wasn't canceled.

For me its got to be Croydon's Suffolk house (http://www.skyscrapernews.com/imagesall.php?self=nse&ref=2335&idi=Suffolk+House&selfidi=2335SuffolkHouse_pic1.jpg&no=1), orCanary Wharf's 1 Millharbour.
http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/611Millharbour(37floordevelopment)_pic2.jpg

i thought this tower was under construction :lol:

was halt cost $ 587million want canaclled????

for me, the illinois
http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=23192&stc=1&d=1164655688
I don't think it was cancelled, it was just a vision.

i thought this tower was under construction :lol:

for me its looks like COMPLETED :banana: hehe

I think that the best cancelled skyscraper ever is The Miglin-Beitler Skyneedle!

I really liked Ice Tower, for Panama :(

http://www.c21online.net/ImagenUpload/5370%20-%201.jpg

The tower looks so real :lol:

Giant Lenin.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3570/3446204026_7d7502af69_b.jpg

[Source (http://www.flickr.com/photos/35744360@N08/3446204026/in/pool-traditional_skyscrapers)].

^^ damn. :(

Khrushchov said: "I'd rather build 5 chemical plants." Here's another skyscraper canceled by him: ☞ ☞ ☞ ☟:

http://muar.ru/press_dossier/2006/visotki/14.jpg

[Source (http://muar.ru/)].

*sigh*
:cheers: Damn Oil Bust :cheers:

The Bank of the Southwest Tower
Would've been 82 floors, while the entire 79th floor to be used for an observation deck.

Forgot the height, but emporis has it at 427.87 m

If it looks familiar, good eye, because philly got spin-offs based on this design.:bash::cheers:

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k353/northbayoukid/other%20things/1-3.jpg

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k353/northbayoukid/other%20things/2-2.jpg

Bank of Southwest Tower is definitely one of the best ones.

Anara Tower, Dubai. Russia Tower, Moscow. Ice Tower, Panama. These were my favorites. I hope everyday that they might repropose them so that they have another chance to be built.:gaah:

Ice Tower, Panama

Al Sharq Tower, Dubai 1181ft.

All time favorite never realised project is "Dubai Towers Dubai" for me i guess

skyscrapers that have been said already
- palace of soviets
- the illinois

other favorites
- Al Burj
- Russia Tower
- Crown Las Vegas