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Phantom Architecture looks at some of the great buildings of the world that did not make it past the architect's drawing board. A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built. These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits, explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way towards the future. Some of them are architectural masterpieces, some simply delightful flights of fancy. It was not usually poor design that stymied them – politics, inadequate funding, or a client who chose a ‘safe’ option rather than a daring vision were all things that could stop a project leaving the drawing board. These unbuilt buildings range from Boullée's vast spherical monument to Isaac Newton to Archigram's Walking City. Phantom Architecture shows why they still haunt us today.
Published by English Heritage, The English Buildings Book, by Philip Wilkinson and Peter Ashley, covers everything from parish churches to castles, town halls to market halls, barns to bars. Now out in paperback.
Meetings with remarkable buildings
About Me
- Philip Wilkinson
- I'm the author of The English Buildings Book, Phantom Architecture, Restoration, the book of Adam Hart-Davis's series What the Romans Did For Us, other books about architecture and buildings, and various books on other subjects, including Dorling Kindersley's handbooks on Mythology (written with Neil Philip) and Religions. IN THIS BLOG I share my encounters with some of my favourite English buildings, including many that are little known and that get short shrift in the architectural history books. Look here for accounts of breweries, prefabs, power stations, corrugated-iron barns and the occasional parish church as I share my meetings with England's remarkable buildings. IN THIS COLUMN, JUST BELOW HERE, are some links to a series of short articles that make up a very brief history of English architecture.
ABOUT ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE
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Phantom Architecture
Phantom Architecture looks at some of the great buildings of the world that did not make it past the architect's drawing board. A skyscraper one mile high, a dome covering most of downtown Manhattan, a triumphal arch in the form of an elephant: some of the most exciting buildings in the history of architecture are the ones that never got built. These are the projects in which architects took materials to the limits, explored challenging new ideas, defied conventions, and pointed the way towards the future. Some of them are architectural masterpieces, some simply delightful flights of fancy. It was not usually poor design that stymied them – politics, inadequate funding, or a client who chose a ‘safe’ option rather than a daring vision were all things that could stop a project leaving the drawing board. These unbuilt buildings range from Boullée's vast spherical monument to Isaac Newton to Archigram's Walking City. Phantom Architecture shows why they still haunt us today.
The English Buildings Book
Published by English Heritage, The English Buildings Book, by Philip Wilkinson and Peter Ashley, covers everything from parish churches to castles, town halls to market halls, barns to bars. Now out in paperback.
Blog Archive
Some topics in this blog
Art Deco
(56)
Byzantine
(5)
Classical
(45)
Decorated
(25)
Early English
(18)
Edwardian
(36)
Elizabethan
(14)
Free Style
(10)
Georgian
(167)
Gothic
(173)
Gothick
(20)
Jacobean
(15)
Lock-up
(15)
Norman
(45)
Palladian
(5)
Perpendicular
(26)
Picturesque
(16)
Power Station
(5)
Queen Anne
(9)
Regency
(69)
Renaissance
(5)
Roman
(9)
Saxon
(17)
Stuart architecture
(60)
Tudor
(48)
Victorian
(301)
abbey
(24)
art nouveau
(42)
arts and crafts
(34)
bank
(20)
barn
(15)
baroque
(23)
brewery
(19)
burial mound
(2)
bus shelter
(6)
buttercross
(3)
cafe
(5)
castle
(29)
cathedral
(14)
chapel
(41)
church
(314)
cinema
(22)
corrugated iron
(45)
cottage orné
(9)
dovecote
(13)
expressionism
(1)
factory
(49)
fire station
(5)
garage
(18)
gatehouse
(9)
glass
(23)
guildhall
(5)
hangar
(2)
henhouse
(1)
horse house
(1)
hospital
(6)
hotel
(28)
house
(276)
ice house
(1)
inn
(31)
lavatory
(12)
lettering
(121)
lighthouse
(3)
lodge
(15)
mausoleum
(3)
moderne
(5)
modernist
(16)
neo-Norman
(3)
order
(34)
post box
(14)
prefab
(3)
pub
(71)
pyramid
(5)
railway
(28)
rococo
(4)
shop
(153)
sign
(142)
station
(32)
telephone box
(21)
tiles
(73)
underground
(13)
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Three ways In the bleak midwinter, with rain on rain in this part of the world, here's a photograph to remind us of last summer...
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- Adventures in the Czech Republic
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- BLDGBLOG
- Building Our Past
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- The Greasy Spoon
- History and Traditions of England
- Jane's London
- Joe Treasure, his blog
- Jones the Planner
- Liberal England
- National Trust Treasure Hunt
- Spitalfields Life
- To Discover Ice
- Two Nerdy History Girls
- Unmitigated England
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Genii of the place
- 99 percent invisible
- British Listed Buildings
- Brooking Collection
- Building Conservation
- Building History
- Cambridge modernism
- Churches Conservation Trust
- Cinema Theatre Association
- Classic cafés
- Culture 24
- Curiosities of Cheltenham Spa
- Folly Fellowship
- Forgotten relics
- Goddards of Leicester
- History of the Northeast in 100 Places
- Landmark Trust
- Liverpool architecture
- London underground history
- Looking at Buildings
- Manchester buildings
- Modernism in Metroland
- National Heritage List for England
- National Trust Collections
- Piranesi on Artsy
- Strange Britain
- Things Magazine
- Underground Kent
- Utopia Britannica
- Watson Fothergill of Nottingham
One can but dream...
"...the job within my job is to render back what I have felt and enjoyed; to try and make the interpretation into some kind of poem itself."
Ian Nairn (1930–1983), pilot, writer, and topophile
Ian Nairn (1930–1983), pilot, writer, and topophile
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Copyright © 2007–2026 Philip Wilkinson unless otherwise credited
Copyright © 2007–2026 Philip Wilkinson
Photographs on this blog are
Copyright © 2007–2026 Philip Wilkinson unless otherwise credited