Ruined buildings and their replacements in Europe

[*****]

Rijeka, synagogue, destroyed by the Communists after WW2

plan


building



replaced with this

[wolfpaw]

Hideous, cheap, ugly modern/old-fashioned crap. I detest that sort of 'architecture'

[ReiAyanami]

Municipal theater of Athens:


Replaced by flying rats:

[ABC LV]

Communists probably destroyed more synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe than NAZI.

[*****]

The monumental fountain was destroyed in 1947 in Split (formerly one of the two most beautifuls fountains in Europe




replaced with this water trough




but we hope to restore soon

[Chris_533976]

REALLY hope that fountain goes ahead. There was another amazing one in the War Damage thread that could do with a rebuild.

[Iluminat]

Originally Posted by ABC LV

Funny, communists destroyed more synagogues and Jewish cemeteries in Eastern Europe than NAZI.

I don't think so.

Anyway here's grand Synagogue in Warsaw destroyed by the Nazis in 1943:



Replaced by this skyscraper:

later recladed:



Warsaw ghetto:

[Benonie]

'Nederlands Theater' at Antwerp, Belgium by architect Pierre J.-A. Dens :



Replaced by this thing, I don't even want to know the architects name...

[ABC LV]

Originally Posted by Iluminat

I don't think so.

Well, in case of Baltics it is true, especially when talking about Jewish cemeteries, after the war most of them were levelled down here. Not surprising though, people who ruled in that immoral system had lost any sense of humanity.

[Norkey]

Synagogue in Liberetz/Reichenberg, destroyed by nazis and replaced with Regional Scientific Library and Reconciliation Building (2001).

before

after

[Luli Pop]

Originally Posted by Benonie

'Nederlands Theater' at Antwerp, Belgium by architect Pierre J.-A. Dens :



Replaced by this thing, I don't even want to know the architects name...

That's really sad!
It should be reconstructed!

In my city, Buenos Aires the situation is far worse! No war, nor earthquake, no ruins, and everything was destroyed with no reason but speculation.

At least 20 theatres where destroyed, 3 of them for more than 2400 people.

[Benonie]

Same in Belgium. There was not a lot of damage during the Second World War, but after the war lot of architectural pearl were destroyed bacause of speculation and bad urbanisation.
This is a very, very sad example:

The art nouveau Volkshuis/Maison du Peuple, a masterpiece of our famous architect Victor Horta, was destroyed in 1965 and replaced by the ugliest and most hated tower in Brusses, the Blaton/Sablon Tower...

[Karasek]

Kaiserpalast in Dresden, Germany:



Now:

[*****]

:Moment of shock:

:Reaction:
why

[erbse]

^ Argh, please stop it!


The Kaiserpalast was one of my favourite historicist buildings all across Europe.

There are so many saddening examples to be found in Germany, since the war, communists and post-war planners/architects left their excrements nearly everywhere..

[Mike____]

These ones are to cry for!

Belgian Coast in the past, if it was still here the coast definitely would be one of the most beautiful coasts in europe!!






These pictures show how it is right now :/only ugly boxes.. sadness ...







Its just like a huge wall ..

[erbse]

Well, Oostende is indeed a pretty sad sight. But luckily some bigger parts of the old town survived, apart from the old spa hotels and homes at the promenade.

[*****]

OMG,that is madness...How sad,so many historical building throw in the garbage...

[norbert91]

its warsaw

[norbert91]

and now...

warsaw again