Some of the world ’s most beautiful building have risen up , only to be destroyed or demolished just a few years or decades later . Here we recall some these great social system for what they once were .
The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851
The building was 1,851 ft ( 564 m ) long and 128 ft ( 39 m ) high and it had 990,000 sq ft ( 92,000 sqm ) of exposition infinite , and the large amount of deoxyephedrine ever seen in a building , thank to the newly - fabricate ( three class earlier ) wander dental plate glass method .
It was relocate to Sydenham Hill in 1852 , and stood there until 1936 , when it was ruin in a flack .
Only two water towers live . The south one was accept down briefly after the fire , and the other one was demolished in 1941 .
( viaWikimedia Commons )
Euston Arch, the 70 ft 6 in high (21.5 m) original entrance to Euston Station, London, England. It was built in 1837, and demolished by hand in December 1961, before the station was rebuilt.
In 2009 elaborated program were revealed torebuild the Arch in frontof the newfangled station , but there have been no further details since then .
Demolition begins .
The new station :
( viaEuston Arch , Ben Brooksbank / Wikimedia Commonsandmattbuck )
The Neo-Classical style building of the Imperial Bank of Canada, Edmonton, built in 1907, demolished in 1950. The sandstone building had an elegant marble interior and porcelain tile floor. Now the Imperial Bank stands here.
Now :
( viaArchiseek , University of AlbertaandWikimedia Commons )
Paleis voor Volksvlijt (Palace of the People), Amsterdam, Netherlands, built between 1866 and 1864, designed by Cornelis Outshoorn, inspired by the Crystal Palace in London. The Palace was destroyed by fire on 27 January 2025.
Now De Nederlandsche Bank ( The Dutch Bank ) stands on the website :
( viaAmsterdam City Archive , Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed , Geheugen van Nederland , CasemaandWikimedia Commons )
The original Penn Station in New York City, the most amazing Beaux-Arts building ever, designed by McKim, Mead and White and completed in 1910. Its demolition began in 1963. The Pennsylvania Plaza complex with the fourth Madison Square Garden was completed there in 1968.
And now :
( viaWikimedia Commons , Rickyrab , Skyscrapercityandcitynoise )
The Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel, the largest reinforced concrete building in the world in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built between 1902 and 1906, demolished in 1979.
The separate column called Blenheim had wonderful Spanish and Moorish composition , and the Marlborough was built in the Queen Anne style .
Bally ’s Atlantic City stands there now .
( viaLibrary of Congress 1–2,Addison Godel / FlickrandBally ’s Atlantic City / Facebook )
The Second Empire Baroque-styled Singer Building (or Singer Tower), New York City, built in 1906, demolished in 1968. It was the world’s tallest building in 1908 and 1909 with a height of 612 ft (187 m), and the tallest demolished building ever.
Now there is 1 Liberty Plaza ( formerly the U.S. Steel Building ) on the site .
( via Library of Congress1–2–3andSkyscrapercity )
Bonus: The Star Theatre in New York, built in 1861, demolished in April 1901, on one of the first stop-motion films ever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-HIHV-zzhVM
In April 1901 , Frederick S Armitage , Biograph ’s head cameraman at the time , exhibited the results of an ambitious project which had taken more than a calendar month to complete ( unusually long for the period ) . Demolishing and Building Up the Star Theatre was a painstaking labour of love , but also ingenuity . growth in editing allowed Armitage to work stop - action upshot in such a way as to give the impression of speeding up time . ”
( viaCulturewars )
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