118-Year-Old NYC Skyscraper's Interiors Finally Visualized—See Inside
Summary
A long-planned skyscraper in New York City called Hotel Attraction, designed by architect Antoni Gaudí more than 100 years ago but never built, has been digitally recreated. The new visualizations show the building’s unique interiors and its mix of hotel, cultural spaces, and large halls, giving a sense of what might have been a remarkable tower in Lower Manhattan.Key Facts
- Hotel Attraction was designed around 1908 by Antoni Gaudí for two unknown American businessmen but was never built.
- The tower would have been about 1,181 feet tall, making it the tallest building in the world at the time until surpassed by the Empire State Building in the 1930s.
- The building features four large entrances and a grand reception hall around 56 feet high decorated with Gaudí’s signature ceramic mosaic called trencadís.
- Its interiors included themed halls for different regions: America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa.
- The Europa Hall was designed as a combined dining room, concert hall, and theater with stained-glass windows and ceiling sculptures.
- The skyscraper was meant to function as a mix of hotel, cultural center, museums, theaters, and residences, like a vertical city or secular cathedral.
- The digital reconstruction is part of a YouTube project by Daniel Coughlin, who recreates unrealized architectural projects to explore their design and impact.
- Interest in Gaudí’s work has grown during the 100th anniversary of his death, with progress continuing on his famous church, the Sagrada Família, in Barcelona.
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