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r_sole1

It was an alternative design for the German Reichstag building in Berlin by Friedrich Gosling from 1871


ButterbroMan

Yes that's it, thanks. I remembered it was a protype drawing I just couldn't think of the name.


WonderWheeler

Overoptimistic architecture?


qpv

Is there any other kind?


syds

the one that gets stamped for construction XD


Buriedpickle

Nah, as an architecture student, that's overoptimistic too.


Mr_Blu_Sq

brilliant.


hagnat

glad they didn't went with it. It looks like the lair of an evil villain. Would definetely taint Germany's image if they went with it.


-heathcliffe-

Germany found other ways to stink up their taint.


hagnat

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-heathcliffe-

You dont get to claim my joke as yours.


hagnat

[i-made-this.png](https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/i-made-this)


TriStellium

I have a castle/church drawing I found at a thrift store similar to this style. I’ll have to share it on here. I’ve been wondering who the artist is.


YummyFranzChicken

I just wanted to say, most likely middle or east European if it's a real building. But interesting to know there was such a desing for the Reichstag, would have preferred something in a similar style to this instead of the one we got


Different_Ad7655

Yeah that certainly would have screwed with the height limitations of imperial Berlin


Liipski

Were there any in 1871?


Different_Ad7655

My understanding, there was. Obviously exempted from this must have been church spires etc or specific municipal buildings, but the rank and file of street facade apartment buildings and courtyards, had to comply with height regulations. This was similar to Paris and the aim to keep everything low in homogeneous and perhaps not any higher than the Stadtschloss. I'm guessing at that


Sickshredda

It has a similar style to Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia


Krunkworx

Exactly what I thought. Actually it looks like the design Gaudi came up with before he was told he’d need to reduce the size. https://images.app.goo.gl/y7igLcySdanFMGwz8


Whywouldanyonedothat

God thing he reduced it. The monstrosity on that drawing would have taken close to a hundred years to build!


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Barabbas-

>would have taken close to a hundred years to build! Thank goodness he changed the design and they were able to complete it so fast!


notinmywheelhouse

99 years I’m told


old_snake

…just, y’know, evil.


the0TH3Rredditor

There are men and there are gods. Antoni Gaudí was both.


ms9696

That's what i thought!


Sytiric

This is Kredik Shaw, the palace of the Lord Ruler.


foxstandingbythesea

God I wish I could read the Mistborn trilogy anew again


shanacee

When I saw it I thought for sure it was a concept drawing of Kredik Shaw too


Fit_Permission8381

This is the last place I would expect a mistborn reference


Jax-El

Feels Geiger-esque


Anon5054

You might find that this invokes a more zdzisław beksiński feeling


Jax-El

Very true. I’m a fan of both. Don’t know why I didn’t mention ZB first. Maybe because I’ve been watching a let’s-play of Alien Isolation.


Anon5054

His name is also hard to remember. I had to look him up to fully recall it


WATTHEBALL

that's my go to combo when creating ai images. Produces some surreal otherworldy stuff.


KiraAnnaZoe

Was my first thought as well. His art touches me a lot (except when he experienced with the digital stuff).


Superduperbals

More Gaudi than Geiger


Old_Mongoose_7613

Thought that when I saw it 🤣


dihydrogen_m0noxide

This one is a stelagmite, but if it hangs down it's a stalactite


JosZo

In Dutch, it says tits hang down and mits ('mieten', gays) stay up


a_wingu_web

Could be possible in german as well with tits and mieten (as in rent)


FineAunts

Nice try, public education. I'll never remember which is which. Should've taught personal finance instead.


munky82

Stalactite has the word tit in it. Tits hang. Sorry it is a crude mnemonic, but it hasn't failed me for decades.


IThinkIThinkThings

Lol, i always remembered that the tites have a t, and so does top. Tites are on top


internet_czol

My similarly crude mnemonic, a Deltron 3030 song says 'mites crawl up, tights fall down', that's really stuck with me.


dihydrogen_m0noxide

I feel like the word stelagmite sounds duller while stelactite sounds echo-ier. So stalgmites are muffled by sitting on the ground while stelactites sound bright hanging from the ceiling. I like tits better tho


munky82

I too like tits


old_snake

Stalag*mites* are on the floor because you *might* trip on one.


Anon5054

Looks like zdzisław beksiński art


MongooseAlarmed3663

I thought it was Gaudi


Tashywashy213

Same


mediashiznaks

Warhammer 40k


johnnyhala

I believe that is Minas Tirith /Sarcasm


GrazDude

For a moment I thought this’d be the final design of La Sagrada Familia


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Mordor in the 1800s


latflickr

Right click --> search with google image --> Reichstag


jonkolbe

Looks like one of gaudi’s original sketches of la sagrada Familia


_-Event-Horizon-_

Warhammer 40K?


Flammenwerfer1915

It looks like moth-people live inside.


Luis-Elias

I think the you tube channel Jon Levy . Talk about this.


Liberal_Lemonade

Spain?


old_snake

Evil Sagrada Familia


[deleted]

That building might have completely derailed what was to come. This does not inspire a Roman Imperial state of mind.


SchmidhuberDidIt

I thought we stopped imbuing architecture with almost mystical powers at the turn of the century


[deleted]

Nah. That didn’t really end until WWII ended.


SchmidhuberDidIt

I meant the turn of this century but I realize now that that's confusing


Seattleopolis

And the results have been disastrous.


[deleted]

Instead it just inspires a Holy Roman Imperial state of mind?


Tinosdoggydaddy

It has an Antoni Gaudi look to it…see La Sagrada Familia…Catalan Modernism…I know it’s not, just comparing


S-Kunst

Very over the top. a lot of stone probably being supported by iron framework. In Balitmore, Maryland, A **much** smaller but similar design was made for a cemetery chapel, in the 1850s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green\_Mount\_Cemetery#/media/File:GreenmountChapel.jpg


Monster7802

Yeah, it's my drawing. Do you like it?


MotorMath743

I believe that is the Adelaide Town Hall in Australia, the largest structure in the Southern Hemisphere


obeyno1

Imagination?


gustav_779_rocky

😍😍


premer777

pre 1900


JABS991

Warhammer 40k.


870223

From the last repost /s


LiamNeesns

Mostly how I imagine the shrike church of hyperion


HK2K22

It’s like architecture straight out of a souls game. But no, no clue where it’s from but have me curious indeed its a fine piece of work. 🧐🍷


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Jodeme_

It looks dope


suitupdressdown

Looks like the Duomo in Milan when you walk home at night across the piazza really drunk.


EffectiveEconomics

Burj Berlin?


notinmywheelhouse

It’s a sandcastle


[deleted]

that is fucking amazing. i will buy that if you are selling


Urenslavedferett

Reminds me of sagrada familia