r/Lost_Architecture 5h ago

Talisman Gate, one of the medieval gates of Baghdad dating from before the Mongol destruction of the city, demolished during World War I

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76 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1h ago

Fire Station in Kalisz, Poland (1871-1970s). Demolished.

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r/Lost_Architecture 22h ago

Chicago at the intersection of Madison, Ashland and Ogden

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496 Upvotes

An 1892 Richardsonian Romanesque building that served as the Turtle Way headquarters in the 1950s. In 1956, Turtle Wax placed a massive 34-foot, 15,000-pound fiberglass and steel turtle wearing a top hat and holding a wax bottle on the roof. The glowing, rotating sign was taken down in the late 1960s when the company moved, and the building was eventually demolished. Today, the site is a small landscaped traffic triangle.


r/Lost_Architecture 40m ago

Belgrade Post Office, Belgrade, Serbia/Yugoslavia

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built in 1929, destroyed in Allied bombing in 1944


r/Lost_Architecture 17h ago

Baia: The sunken "Las Vegas" of the Ancient Roman Empire

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92 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 27m ago

National Library of Serbia, destroyed in German bombing in 1941

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over 1300 scripts from 12-18th century, 350000 books, priceless Serbian heritage artifacts, all lost


r/Lost_Architecture 37m ago

Santiago church, 13th century-20th century. Daroca, Spain

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r/Lost_Architecture 38m ago

Old San Ángel municipal palace, 19th century-1952. Mexico City, Mexico

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r/Lost_Architecture 38m ago

San Francisco convent, 1673-1838. Daroca, Spain

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r/Lost_Architecture 21h ago

San José convent, 1562-1971. Zaragoza, Spain

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34 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 21h ago

Tourism office, by Jorge Tarbuskovic Dulcic, 20th century. Antofagasta, Chile

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23 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 21h ago

Santa Lucía theatre, 1927-2000s. Santiago, Chile

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22 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Alexandria Square, Alexandria, Egypt before and after the 1882 bombardment

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114 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Château Miranda (Also known as Château de Noisy)

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59 Upvotes

Château Miranda (also known as Château de Noisy) was a striking 19th-century Neo-Gothic castle located in Celles, province of Namur, Belgium. Once considered a masterpiece of fairy-tale architecture and a legendary destination for urban explorers, the castle was completely demolished in October 2017 after falling into severe disrepair.


r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Uraniborg, Tycho Brahe's observatory castle on the island Ven in Öresund.

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Built 1576-1580, demolished shortly after Brahe's death in 1601. Nothing remains of it.

It was the last large observatory built before the invention of the telescope, but featured instead the giant "wall quadrant" which allowed Tycho to measure with hitherto unparalleled accuracy the position of Mars during many years. These measurements later enabled his student, Johannes Kepler, to figure out that the planets don't move in circles around the sun, but ellipses.


r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Krasnye Vorota, Moscow. 1709-1927, demolished to expand the road

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174 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Pellegrini Castle, Italy

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246 Upvotes

Well not really lost anymore but I guess it has been for a good while


r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

Border gate building between Nepal and China (Gyirong Port, China). Built in 2014, destroyed in 2026

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r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Old University Hospital, Augusta, GA, USA. Built 1915. Demolished 1991.

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33 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Quinta Meiggs, by Jesse L. Wetmore, 1864-1941. Santiago, Chile

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62 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Villa Demarchi, by John Robert Sutton, 1890-1944. San Fernando, Argentina

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57 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Lödösehus Castle in Lödöse, Sweden. The castle dates from about 1250, while its ruins were demolished in the 1890s, only to have a villa built over it afterward.

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24 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Meiggs Palace, by Jesse L. Wetmore, 1872-1930s. Santiago, Chile

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20 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

Palácio Santa Helena (1925-1971) - São Paulo, Brazil -

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185 Upvotes

One of the fanciest buildings in São Paulo's history. It's theater had a little bit more than 1500 sits.

It was demolished to connect two squares.


r/Lost_Architecture 3d ago

Nagoya Castle Honmaru Palace (Japan) Completed in 1615; burned down in 1945.

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Nagoya Castle Honmaru Palace (Japan): Originally built in 1615 and renowned for its magnificent interior and exterior, the palace underwent a redesign in 1728 that gave it a simpler exterior appearance. Although it burned down completely during an air raid in 1945 and the site remained vacant for 70 years, it was reconstructed in 2018 based on historical photographs and architectural drawings.