Old university of Glasgow (Old college) 1460-1880s demolisched

A building abandoned due to slum conditions was demolished to make way for the construction of a train station.

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 1 month ago

beach elevator "Światowid" destroyed by sea

the tower and the beach elevator shaft built in 1938–1939, 20 meters high, designed by Jerzy Osmołowski in the modernist style, completed and grandly opened in the 1960s, it was the most popular attraction of the resort, closed after 5 years due to the instability of the structure (the tower deviated from the vertical by about 1.5 meters due to the unstable ground), so it stood empty and unused, in the 1980s, a storm of force 8 on the Beaufort scale put a final end to this outstanding work of modernism, causing the tower to finally collapse into the water.

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 1 month ago
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Église Saint-Vincent de Rouen (church ofthe saint Vincent in Ruen, france) destroyed by RAF and americans

The first church was built in the 12th century and dedicated to Saint Vincent of Saragossa. It was rebuilt in the Gothic style in the 15th century and then enlarged in the 1670s. A tower was added to the church in 1669. In 1939, 29 historic stained glass windows, made around 1520–1530 and considered among the most beautiful in the city, were dismantled for safety reasons, carefully packed into crates, and transported to Niort.

The church was destroyed at the end of World War II, on May 31, 1944, by several bombs dropped during the Allied bombing of Rouen and the surrounding area during the week of May 30–June 5, 1944, known as "Red Week.". In 1945, its remains were deemed too damaged to consider reconstruction. In the 1950s, the Rue du Général-Giraud was built on the site.

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 2 months ago

Schlahthoff Breslau. municipal slaughterhouse in Wrocław unlegally demolished to build a shopping center in 1999

The plant, covering an area of 20 hectares, was built between 1893 and 1896 according to the design of the architect Osthoff. The main components of the complex were a slaughterhouse and cattle warehouse, including slaughterhouses and cold rooms, a machine room, tallow melting equipment, animal manure storage facilities, and a hide salting plant. A livestock exchange and restaurant operated in the courtyard, and a sanitary control facility was located nearby. The market hall located on the premises housed 2,000 calves and 3,000 pigs, and two other halls housed 1,500 cows. There were also barns and a pigsty, a horse slaughterhouse, a meat testing laboratory, a carcass rendering plant, and other facilities. AKME, with the consent of the city authorities and despite numerous protests, began demolishing the slaughterhouse on October 21, 1999.

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Boberhaus in Lwówek Śląski (Löwenberg) architect Hans Poelzig build in the 1910, burned down in 1945

This magnificent building, originally built in 1910 as a boarding school and from 1926 as an adult school and youth home, was financed by the Schlesische Jungmannschaft organization. Membership was independent of political views, origin, or profession.

After the Nazis seized power, the building became a

shelter for the Hitler Youth, and hospital for the Wehrmacht, and a camp for forced laborers. During the division of the Third Reich, the building belonged to the Kreisauer Circle. It burned to the ground in 1945.

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 3 months ago

Bijenkorf in Rotterdam, demolished

Bijenkorf was a luxury department store in the center of Rotterdam, opened in 1930, it was the most modern shopping center in the Netherlands, the building was designed by the architect Willem Marinus Dudok and built in just one year, it was damaged during the air raid on Rotterdam on May 14, 1940, partially rebuilt after the war, closed in 1957 and demolished three years later.

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 3 months ago

One of the oldest streeats in Wrocław (Breslau) on this street there were half-timbered buildings from the 15th and 18th centuries, street was demolished in ww2 and after by communist regime.

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 3 months ago

Dreifaltigkeitskirche / Holly trinity church, Berlin Germany built in 1739 in barokue style, destroyed in 1943 by air raid and demolished in 1947

u/Ambitious-Regret5054 — 3 months ago