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Génius Gaudí https://www.facebook.com/share/18NrsuuRdj/
18/08/2026

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Antoni Gaudí once designed a skyscraper for New York City, and it looked nothing like anything else on the Manhattan skyline.

In May 1908, two American businessmen crossed the Atlantic to meet Gaudí in Catalonia. They wanted a hotel that would become the biggest attraction in New York. Gaudí gave them a tower.

The design called for nine spires rising around one central tower, reaching 1,181 feet (360 meters) into the sky. That is taller than the Eiffel Tower. Inside, a spiral ramp wound up through the structure, similar to the ones he was already using at the Sagrada Família in Barcelona.

The hotel was planned as five massive halls stacked on top of each other, each representing the culture of a different continent. Guests could travel the world without leaving the building.

It was never built. The project vanished from public memory until 1956, when Gaudí's collaborator Joan Matamala i Flotats published the surviving drawings in a report called "When the New World Called Gaudí."

The story did not end there. In 2003, architects submitted Gaudí's design as a proposal for rebuilding the World Trade Center site, more than 90 years after it was first imagined for the same stretch of Lower Manhattan.

New York never got its Gaudí skyscraper. Barcelona got the Sagrada Família instead.

This is not a real photo. It's an AI interpretation of a building Gaudí designed but never built.

Celý Manhattan v jednom termitišti? Dvounozí lidé chodí raději vodorovně než svisle, ulice a tramvaje jsou pro nás pohod...
31/07/2026

Celý Manhattan v jednom termitišti? Dvounozí lidé chodí raději vodorovně než svisle, ulice a tramvaje jsou pro nás pohodlnější než schody nebo výtah.
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BUILT BY ANIMALS — Part 1: Termites

A termite may be only about 0.3 in (0.8 cm) long, yet some species can build mounds reaching 19.7 ft (6 m)—roughly 750 times their body length.

At the same proportion, a 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) human would construct a tower about 4,300 ft (1.3 km) tall.

Built without a central architect or blueprint, termite mounds use networks of chambers and passages to help regulate airflow and conditions inside the colony.

11/07/2026
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