Hitlers World Capital Germania

[Corvus]

Welthauptstadt Germania ("World Capital Germania") refers to the projected renewal of the German capital Berlin during the Nazi period, part of Adolf Hitler's vision for the future of Germany after the planned victory in World War II. Albert Speer, the "first architect of the Third Reich", produced many of the plans for the rebuilt city in his capacity as overseer of the project, only a small portion of which was realized between the years 1937-1943 when construction took place.

Some projects, such as the creation of a great East-West city axis, which included broadening Charlottenburger Chaussee (today Straße des 17. Juni) and placing the Berlin victory column in the center, far away from the Reichstag, where it originally stood, were successfully completed. Others, however, such as the creation of the Große Halle (Great Hall), had to be shelved owing to the beginning of war. A great number of the old buildings in many of the planned construction areas were, however, demolished before the war and eventually defeat stopped the plans

Some pictures:

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[Corvus]

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[alb0zfinest]

Wow! very interesting and great projects. They seem well planned, and promote the classical European type of architecture.

[Corvus]

Wow! very interesting and great projects. They seem well planned, and promote the classical European type of architecture.

Masterpieces of human art if you ask me. It is just a pity that apart from the airport and the Olympia stadium they were never finalized.

[Dr. Doofenshmirtz]

Impressive!!

[Anglojew]

The second photo looks familiar;

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/sy4f241287.jpg

[kvarc]

shit architecture!

[morski]

The second photo looks familiar;


It's a triumphal arch, I believe.

[RussiaPrussia]

http://www.mrgallagherstudentsites.com/1930s/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/NewYork-1930s.jpg

New york in the 30s clearly looks better

[Grenzland]

No! Surely not! To modern and to American.

[Fortis in Arduis]

There was a proposed building which I saw once in a picture but never saw again. It was something like an art gallery or an opera house. It might have been by Speer.

Anyway, it had a long line of pillars, a colonade, but the building itself was bow-fronted, so that it would have looked even more impressive. Does anyone know which building this was?

Germania reminds me of Lutyen's New Delhi:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-10J2xWGbkLI/TuTixgyQ7rI/AAAAAAAAAM0/Rj3H4InGcyo/s1600/image005.jpg

Indeed, the building that I am thinking of looked a little like this:

http://atulayabharat.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/parliament-house-delhi.jpg?w=540&h=387

except that it was not circular, just long and bow-fronted, and was proposed to be in that restrained neo-Greek style.