世界上十大因不切實際而無法建成的建築奇作(上)

Human history is littered with incredible Monuments we stupidly tore down. But plenty didn't even make it that far. Go digging through dusty old ledgers and architects' scrapbooks, and you'll uncover a wealth of awe-inspiring structures ripped straight out a retro sci-fi film—structures that really never could have worked.

人類歷史上充斥着被我們稀裏糊塗拆毀的驚人建築遺蹟。但還有很多甚至沒有成型。翻閱佈滿灰塵的舊賬簿和建築師的手稿本時，你會看到大量曾出現在復古科幻電影裏的結構設計圖，這些建築設計令人驚歎，可它們並未成爲現實。

Tokyo Tower Of Babel

10.東京通天塔

Imagine the entire height of Mount Everest, all 8,848 meters (29,029 ft). Now imagine some lunatic had built Dubai's record-breaking Burj Khalifa on top of it. Congratulations: That tower plus the mountain (10 times taller) below it combined still fall a couple of hundred meters short of the Tokyo Tower of Babel.

想象在你面前的是一座高達8848米（29, 029英尺）的珠穆朗瑪峯。然後一個瘋子在峯頂建造了迪拜那座破紀錄的哈利法塔。恭喜！這大概就是東京通天塔的高度，比哈利法塔和高於塔十倍的珠穆朗瑪峯的高度之和再高几百米。

The craziest building Japan never built was dreamed up in the dying days of the bubble economy in 1991. Clocking in at a cool 10,000 meters (around 6.2 miles), it would have taken up to 150 years to build, cost $306 trillion and housed 30 million people. It would also been bigger than many countries. When a comparatively tiny 4,000-meter (13,000 ft) tower was proposed around the same time, somebody crunched the numbers for one the same size as Everest. They concluded that a tower that large would need a base of 4,100 square kilometers (1,500 mi2)—an area of ground nearly twice the size of Luxembourg. The base for Tokyo's Babel would have been even larger. Although it was proposed during a Japanese craze for structures bigger than mountains, it's not clear Babel was ever intended to be built. And by the time the architects made the proposal, the economy was well and truly crashed.

這座瘋狂的、從未實現的日本建築構思在1991年泡沫經濟末期成型。建造一座10,000米的通天塔需要花費150年的時間、306萬億美元和3000萬的勞動力。這座塔的面積甚至比許多國家還要大。差不多在同一時期，當提出修建一個相對小點、大概4000米（13,000英尺）高的塔時，有人計算出如珠穆朗瑪峯一般大小的建築物的相關數據。他們推斷，修建一座面積這麼大的的塔需要一個4,100平方千米（1,500平方英里）的地基，這個地基的面積差不多是盧森堡的兩倍。那麼，東京通天塔的地基將更大。雖然提出通天塔的構思時，日本人正瘋狂地迷戀比山脈還要高大的建築物，但人們是否真的打算修建這麼一座塔就不得而知了。而且，當建築師提出修建通天塔的時候，日本經濟已經全面崩潰。

Fun Palace

9.遊樂宮

By the late 1950s, Joan Littlewood had already ensured her place in the history books. A British theater director, she was known for smashing down boundaries to make plays more accessible. But rewriting the theater rulebook wasn't enough. Littlewood wanted to change the way we saw theaters themselves.

二十世紀五十年代末，瓊·利特伍德就已確立了她的歷史地位。她是一名英國戲劇導演，因打破侷限使戲劇更通俗易懂而出名。但她不滿足於對戲劇規則的創新。利特伍德想進一步改變觀衆觀賞戲劇的方式。

In 1960, Littlewood hired architect Cedric Price to design the most radical theater in history. His Fun Palace, as it became known, redefined what architecture could do. Taking inspiration from cybernetics theories, avant garde playwrights, and Monty Python, he drew up plans for a building where nothing stayed in one place. Everything from the seats inside, to the stages, to the lobby, to the cafe and cinema screens could be shunted around and reconfigured at will. Where the stage was one day, you might have the box office the next. Where the changing rooms had been on Monday, you could have the auditorium by Tuesday. No two visits would ever be the same. If that sounds potentially confusing, you're not alone. People hated it. Church groups, local citizens, and London's councils all conspired to stop the Fun Palace going ahead. When permission finally came through in the 1970s, funding mysteriously dried up. Work never even started.

1960年，利特伍德僱請建築師塞德里克·普萊斯設計了一座史上最與衆不同的劇院。他的構想後來被人們稱爲遊樂宮，改變了人們對建築學的看法。塞德里克從控制理論、前衛劇作家還有蒙提·派森巨蟒劇團那裏汲取靈感，想要設計一座所有東西都可變換位置的建築。建築裏的座椅、舞臺、大廳、咖啡館、電影屏幕都可以隨意轉移重組。今天是舞臺的地方明天可能會變成售票區。某個地方星期一還是更衣室，很可能星期二就成了觀衆席。每次去都會發現劇院有所變化。你絕不是唯一一個認爲這玩意兒很混亂的人。很多人都不喜歡這個設計。宗教團體、當地居民以及倫敦委員會協力阻止遊樂宮的修建。到二十世紀七十年代，這座建築終於獲准施工，資金卻神祕消失了。因此遊樂宮從未動工。

Cenotaph For Newton

8.牛頓紀念碑

Etienne-Louis Boullee was fascinated with Isaac Newton. A neo-classical architect working in 18th-century France, he thought the groundbreaking mathematician deserved an equally groundbreaking monument. So he sat down and drew up designs for the biggest, craziest sphere on Earth.

艾蒂安·路易·佈雷對艾薩克·牛頓十分感興趣。作爲一名18世紀在法國工作的新古典主義建築師，佈雷認爲這位富有突破性的數學家理應得到一個同樣極富開創性的紀念碑來紀念他所取得的成就。於是他坐下來起草設計了地球上最大、最瘋狂的球體。

A 1,500-meter (500 ft) orb encased in a sheer cylindrical base, the cenotaph would have dwarfed the Great Pyramid at Giza. It would also have invoked a sensation of vertigo in anyone foolish enough to visit. After climbing up a gigantic staircase, visitors would crawl through a tiny tunnel into the inside of the orb. There, they would encounter a vast, sightless void stretching on seemingly forever. At the very center of this disconcerting blank would sit a single sarcophagus containing the body of Newton, a speck against the emptiness of the universe. Tiny holes in the skin of the sphere would have let pinpricks of light through in the shape of the constellations. There were even plans to somehow create a fog effect inside the sphere, giving everything a weird, haunted air. For reasons of practicality, the thing sadly never got built.

這個球體直徑爲1,500米（500英尺），被一個陡峭的圓柱形基座包圍，這樣一個紀念碑會讓吉薩大金字塔都相形見絀。這個紀念碑會使任何傻到前來參觀的人產生眩暈感。爬上一個巨大的樓梯之後，參觀者們將匍匐穿過一條極細的通道進入球體內部。在那裏，他們會看到一個巨大的、無限蔓延的空間。在這個令人困惑的空間的正中央，是一個安放着牛頓遺體的石棺，作爲對抗宇宙空虛的一點。球體表面的小孔會使星光照射進來，呈現出星座的形狀。佈雷甚至還計劃在球體內部製造煙霧效果，讓一切沉浸在怪異可怖的氣氛中。但遺憾的是，出於實際考慮，這個紀念碑永遠不可能付諸實施。

Leonidov's Lenin Institute

7.伊萬·列奧尼多夫的列寧研究所

In 1927, Ivan Leonidov was an architecture student with everything to prove. A radical Russian of the constructivist school, Leonidov wanted to make the biggest splash possible with his graduate designs. He wound up aiming far too high. His proposal for the Lenin Institute in Moscow was both breathtakingly ornate and completely unbuildable.

1927年，伊萬·列奧尼多夫還是一個不曾顯露才華的建築系學生。作爲一名構建主義學校的激進的俄國學生，列奧尼多夫想讓自己的畢業作品大放異彩。由於最終目標過高，他對莫斯科列寧研究所的提議驚人的華美卻又全無建造的可能。

Designed to function as a combined library and lecture hall, everything about Leonidov's plans screamed "big." The library alone would have held 15 million books, along with five reading rooms each capable of housing 500–1,000 visitors. Such a huge library needed a similarly huge delivery system, so Leonidov stuffed it full of clanking conveyor belts that whisked books skyward dozens of stories at a time. He also included a gigantic sphere for lectures. Capable of seating 4,000, the enormous glass orb could fold open in half and housed its own private tram system running direct to Moscow. To top it all off, Leonidov then included a radio ough the design won Leonidov plenty of admirers, architect Moisei Ginzburg perhaps summed it up best when he remarked Leonidov "was not really able to prove that his constructive conundrum was actually necessary" and called it "impossible."

由於意在使研究所兼具圖書館和講堂的功能，在列奧尼多夫的設計中，一切都"大"得驚人。僅圖書館就能夠收藏一千五百萬本圖書，還有五間閱覽室分別可以容納五百到一千位讀者。這樣一個巨大的圖書館需要一個同樣工程浩大的運送系統，於是列奧尼多夫在圖書館內裝滿了叮噹作響的傳送帶以便能一次把書運到幾十層樓之上。他還計劃將講堂建造成一個巨大的球體建築。這個巨型玻璃球可以容納四千個座位，能夠對摺打開，內置獨有的有軌電車系統可以直達莫斯科。更不得了的是，列奧尼多夫還計劃建造一個無線電臺。儘管這個設計爲列奧尼多夫贏得了諸多讚譽，但建築師莫伊謝伊·金茲伯格對列奧尼多夫的評價總結得最爲精闢——"（他）不能證明他提出的建築難題真的有必要"，並稱這個設計是"不可能的"。

on's Safety-Defying Airports

6.無視安全的倫敦飛機場

If you've ever been to London, you'll know inserting an airport into the city center is a madman's dream. Meet that madman: Charles W. Glover. In 1931, Glover produced designs for bringing air travel to central London. He did it by throwing every safety regulation out the nearest window.

如果你去過倫敦，那你應該知道，在倫敦市中心建機場簡直是個瘋狂的想法。讓我們見識下提出這個想法的人：查爾斯·W·格洛費。1931年，格洛費提出在倫敦市中心建機場的設想。他的這一設計將所有的安全章程拋在了腦後。

Glover proposed a £5 million wheel-shaped runway that would sit on top of thousands of homes. Stretching from Kings Cross to Trafalgar Square, it had private garages for personal airplanes, lifts to bring people up from ground level, and absolutely nothing to stop an incompetent pilot from careening off the end and right into the heart of London's shopping districts. Although the potential for catastrophe was clearly enormous, people still took Glover seriously. A watered-down version of the project was still being considered as late as the er wasn't the only one to take a cavalier approach to Londoners' safety. A 1930s proposal suggested placing an airport next to Westminster, where a bad crash could easily wipe out the government. Another from the 1950s aimed to place a landing platform for personal helicopters directly above Charing Cross Station. As Popular Science blithely noted, this new landing pad would helpfully include "radar aids for landings in London's pea-soup fogs."

格洛費計劃花500萬英鎊在上千所房子上空修建輪形跑道。輪形跑道從英皇十字區延伸到特拉法爾加廣場，爲私人飛機建設了停機場，提供電梯方便人們升降，並且絕不會有任何東西妨礙不夠格的飛行員將飛機歪歪斜斜地開出跑道，然後衝進倫敦商業區的中心地帶。顯然這項設計的潛在風險很大，但人們還是認真考慮了格洛費的這一設想。直到20世紀60年代，人們還在考慮採取一個更緩和的計劃。格洛費不是唯一一個對倫敦居民的安全漫不經心的人。20世紀30年代，有人提議在威斯敏斯特旁建一個機場，在那裏發生一次嚴重的飛機事故就能輕易摧毀政府。在20世紀50年代，還有人提出了另一個建議，要在查林十字車站的正上方爲私人直升飛機建一個停機坪。《科技新時代》指出，這個新的停機坪大有用處，"有雷達輔助設備，能幫助飛機在倫敦的濃霧天裏着陸"。

審校：趙倩 來源：前十網