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  1. Grey Havoc

    White House modernisation (late 2020s)

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2l7dey54zjo ORIGINAL CAPTION: A rendering shows what the outside would look like of the renovated East Wing of the White House. The right portion of the building is the East Wing.
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    • 2025 cold war ii late 2020s trump administration unbuilt buildings united states washington d.c.
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  2. Michel Van

    Unbuilt Architecture and City Plans

    that a Novum in this Forum we talk allot about Aircraft, but not much about Airports Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport was original planed as Aéroport de Paris Nord in 1966 with 4 runways of 4000 meter length and 6 big Terminals like Terimal One, but with 6 floor multi-storey car park for 4000...
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  3. Grey Havoc

    Lullingstone Airport

    View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQZgi1O1Vb4 Some background on decoy airfields: https://www.aviationmuseum.net/AirfieldDecoys.htm
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    • 1935 1940s air ministry civil aviation great britain interwar period k site late 1930s london underground lullingstone airfield post-world war ii pre-world war ii q site royal air force the southern railway unbuilt buildings world war ii
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    • Forum: Aviation & Space
  4. GTX

    Terayacht Pangeous

    Putting this in the bar for now as I doubt it will ever generate more than some nice concept pictures... Radical plan for $12 billion floating terayacht city, named Pangeos
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    • floating arcologies interesting times italy kingdom of saudi arabia lazzarini design studio unbuilt buildings
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  5. uk 75

    Monorails

    As the UK wrestles with the issue of whether to build the HS2 high speed rail link from London to the North I had to revisit the world of the late Gerry Anderson as drawn by the artist Graham Bleathman. Like a lot of 60s ideas monorails looked cool but were expensive and impractical- how would...
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  6. Pirate Pete

    New Drydock for Portsmouth Dockyard!?

    The following article appears in the Portsmouth News 28/01/19: Unfortunately, think it may be more wishful thinking than reality..... Link to article: https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/defence/royal-navy-drawing-up-plans-for-new-mega-dry-dock-in-portsmouth-for-hms-queen-elizabeth-1-8786406 The...
  7. Avimimus

    Breitspurbahn three metre gauge railway

    I'm putting this here under the thin justification that some of the cars were to be defensively armed, there were plans to transport small warships with it, and it could fill a logistics role similar to the Reichsautobahnen. However, I really just wanted a thread somewhere to discuss this. Some...
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    • Forum: Secret Army Projects
  8. Pirate Pete

    Portsmouth Destroyer Refit Complex

    I have seen reference to, although at present I am unable to recall where, that there were plans to build a Destroyer Refit complex at Portsmouth Dockyard along the lines of the Frigate Refit Complex at Devonport. I believe part of the plan was realised (alongside the large dry-docks in the main...
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    • cold war destroyer dockyards drydock early 1980s late 1970s royal navy unbuilt buildings
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
  9. Grey Havoc

    Saudi Arabia to build world's tallest tower, reaching 1 kilometer into the sky

    http://edition.cnn.com/2015/11/30/world/meast/saudi-arabia-worlds-tallest-building-jeddah-tower/index.html The question is, will there still be a Saudi Arabia by 2020?
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  10. P

    Royal Dockyards (never were but not secret..........)

    Does anyone have any additional information on the proposed Royal Dockyard at Northfleet? Royal Dockyards by Philip MacDougall Pages 134 – 136. In the light of John Rennie’s great experience as an engineer, it is interesting to consider observations he made on various royal yards in 1807...
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    • 19th century 20th century cold war dockyards great britain nuclear powered vessels royal navy unbuilt buildings
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    • Forum: Secret Naval Projects
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