Paulinerkirche
Augustplatz, Leipzig, German Demolished 1968 During our student days from 1957 to 1963 we were members of the Leipzig University Choir (“Unichor”), whose home was the University Church of St. Pauli. In addition to smaller musical tasks in the university services and the cultivation of the works of Heinrich Schütz, the motets, oratorios and passions […]
Pearl Monument
Manama, Bahrain
Demolished 2011
Penn Station
Disappointed Tourist: Penn Station, New York, New York, USA
Demolished 1963
Place de la Bastille Metro Station
Paris, France
Demolished 1965
Public Hall
Worcester, England, UK
Demolished 1966
Ramsgate Hoverport
Ramsgate, Kent, England, UK
Demolished 1987
Reading Street Dutch Gables
Broadstairs, Kent, England, UK
Demolished 1950s
Regent Cinema
Kilkenny, Ireland Closed 1998 & Demolished The classic! Anon. The Regent Cinema was a theater in Kilkenny City that opened in 1947 as the “New Cinema.” It was renamed the “Regent in 1951 and closed in 1998. It was demolished a year later and replaced with a block of flats and a clinic.
Richborough Power Station
Richborough, Kent, England, UK
Demolished 2012
Riverview
Roscoe Village, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Demolished 1967
Robin Hood Gardens
London, England, UK Partially demolished 2017 Requested by Daniel A. Robin Hood Gardens is a residential estate in Poplar, London. It was designed in the late 1960s by architects Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972. It was built as a council housing estate and was notable for its “streets in the sky” design. The building fell […]
Rockaways Playland
Rockaway Beach, Queens, New York, USA
Closed 1964
St. Lambertus
Immerath, Nord-Rhein Westfalen, Germany
Demolished 2018
Sands Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Closed 1996
Sanctuario de Santa Lucia
Venice, Italy
Demolished 1861
Savoy Ballroom
New York, New York, USA
Closed 1958, demolished 1959
Shell Garden by Sidney Dowdeswell
Hindlip, Worcestershire, England, UK Demolished 1980s There is a film about the shell garden. It’s this clip that stuck in my mind. I saw it as a child. He’d spent 40 years on it in 1962. It also demonstrates the possibilities of cement. You can mould concrete like jelly when you know how. The porcelain […]
Ship Inn
Margate, Kent, England, UK
Demolished 2003
Sophia Booth’s House
Margate, Kent, England, UK
Date of Destruction Unknown
Sundeck
Margate, Kent, England, UK
Demolished 1990
Sutro Baths
San Francisco, California, USA
Demolished 1964
Valentine’s Park Lido
Ilford, Essex, England, UK
Demolished 1995
Wembley Stadium
London, England, UK
Demolished 2002
Wigancice Żytawskie / Weigsdorf
Poland Demolished 1999 The picturesque village of Wigancice Żytawskie / Weigsdorf in Poland was demolished to make way for a coal mine. There are calls for its reconstruction. The village of Wigancice Żytawskie doesn’t exist physically since 1999, when it was liquidated as a result of the expansion of the Turów coal mine. Officially the […]