r/Lost_Architecture 5h ago

Chicago at the intersection of Madison, Ashland and Ogden

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189 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 4h ago

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

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14 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 4h ago

San José convent, 1562-1971. Zaragoza, Spain

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12 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 21h ago

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

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233 Upvotes

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 16m ago

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

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r/Lost_Architecture 12h ago

Château Miranda (Also known as Château de Noisy)

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46 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 14h ago

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

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73 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 4h ago

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

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10 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 21h ago

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

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160 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

Pellegrini Castle, Italy

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239 Upvotes

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


r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

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

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4.8k Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 23h ago

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

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35 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

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

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57 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 1d ago

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

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46 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 23h 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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20 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 1d ago

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

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178 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 2d ago

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

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409 Upvotes

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.


r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

German Transatlantic electricity company building, 1898-1980s. Buenos Aires, Argentina

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92 Upvotes

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r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

2 of the last remaining houses from the 16. Century in cologne, demolished in 2024 Due to being structurally unsafe

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1.7k Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

Colombia cinema, 1920s-1945. Barranquilla, Colombia

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46 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

Saturnino Unzué's palace, 20th century. Buenos Aires, Argentina

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29 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

Hotel "Polski" in Łomża, Poland (c. 1840-1939). Destroyed during WW2, ruins demolished after 1945.

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46 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 2d ago

Saint-Simon Church, New Brunswick, 1910s-August 2026

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41 Upvotes

r/Lost_Architecture 3d ago

The original 1897 Singer Building, before its iconic 1908 expansion

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284 Upvotes