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 […]

Penn Station

Disappointed Tourist: Penn Station, New York, New York, USA

Demolished 1963

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.

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 […]

St. Lambertus

Immerath, Nord-Rhein Westfalen, Germany

Demolished 2018

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

Sundeck

Margate, Kent, England, UK

Demolished 1990

Sutro Baths

San Francisco, California, USA

Demolished 1964

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 […]