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cavemanmike
Beautiful, makes me want to build alternate history fiction around these buildings.
jonbaer
Would have been great to see a dome built by Buckminster Fuller in Brooklyn
qohen
Would have been great to see a dome built by Buckminster Fuller in Brooklyn

You might want to check out the recent SNL sketch, "The Bubble" (2 min, 20 sec), if you haven't already seen it:

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKOb-kmOgpI

emmanuel_1234
Woah, the "hyperboloid" looks very much like Guangzhou Tower.

Google Images: http://goo.gl/Q4zf9t

Animats
The Pan Am building (now MetLife?) was built there instead. Much more rentable floor area than I.M. Pei's skinny tower.
shmerl
> Henry Gilbert’s design was a hybrid of Alfred Beach’s air-powered underground and Charles T Harvey’s cable-powered elevated railway. Passengers would be moved through a double row of ‘atmospheric tubes’ suspended from wrought-iron Gothic arches, held on slender Corinthian columns.

An early idea of hyperloop?

ChuckMcM
I really like the optimism of the early 20th century. So often architect envisioned multiblock structures that would sit above the existing landscape to provide new spaces. A recent idea like that in Cupertino went down in flames at the voting booth but the Apple 'spaceship' campus continues apace.
icegreentea
Even though some of these are pretty old, they look fascinating. The human imagination is really something. That skyscraper bridge would look so badass in real life!
sreenadh
I once saw some drawings of plans for Moscow under USSR. They where just marvelous. Its a pity that I forgot to bookmark it and could not find it again.