THE UNBUILT CITY
Imagine a city that was full of unbuilt structures.
Buildings that were just a sketch on a piece of paper.
Buildings that were unrealised dreams.
Image: 'Pyramid' designed by K.Baumeister (Oklahoma City USA 1978), Melbourne Landmark Competition, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
Every city across the world has a catalogue of designed work by architects that never gets built.
In the city of Melbourne, Australia, the last few decades has seen numerous design competitions to build iconic landmarks. So how would our city look today if these building had come to fruition?
In May 2016, The City of Melbourne held an exhibition 'A History of the Future: Imagining Melbourne', that explored the futuristic designs of local architects and planners. Curator Clare Williamson collected and displayed a number of architectural drawings and plans that showed the visions of the future.
Image : Proposed Overhead Pedestrian Walkway, along Swanston Street, City of Melbourne, 1945.
Image : Robin Boyd (Romberg and Boyd), Bourke Street Development, 1965, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
Image : Bruno Grollo, owner of Australian construction company Grocon, pictured with a model of Melbourne's proposed tallest skyscraper, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
Image : Architect Peter Corrigan (Edmond and Corrigan), Pyramid design for the Victorian State Library and Museum Architectural Competition 1985, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
Image : Proposed redevelopment of The Queen Victoria Market Site, City of Melbourne circa 1970, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
Image : Interior of 'Imagining Melbourne' Exhibition, City of Melbourne.
Image : Hand shaped building 1978, designed by Michael Hilton (Texas USA), Melbourne Landmark Competition, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
Image : Melbourne Centre 1978, designed by architect Kenneth John Tuskes (Ohio, USA), Melbourne Landmark Competition, Imagining Melbourne Exhibition.
The landscape of our cities would certainly be very different than they are today if the 'unbuilt' were built. Fantasy would become reality. And landmarks for future generations would be created.
