Visionary architecture is sometimes referred as paper architecture or an unbuilt project because their creations exist solely as drawings, collages, or models. Certain designs or ideas may remain unrealised, halted at the stages of competitions or submissions. For other modern architects, their concepts serve as expressions of innovative ideas rather than projects intended for actual implementation.
Unbuilt : radical visions of a future that never arrived
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Anarchitectural experiments : when unbuilt designs turn to film
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Eric Lye
Rendering, side perspective of central entrance, competition proposal for Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong
[1987]
Architects Team 3
Photograph, architectural drawing, competition to design Science Centre Singapore, Singapore
1972
Rocco Yim, Rocco Design Architects (now Rocco Design Architects Associates)
Copy detail drawings, international competition for the Bastille Opera House, Paris, France
[1983]
Architects Team 3
Photograph, architectural model, competition to design the Public Utilities Board building, Singapore
1972
Wang Dahong, Dahong Wang & Associates
Photographs, exterior rendering, competition submission for National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
[circa 1961]
Rocco Yim, Rocco Design Architects (now Rocco Design Architects Associates)
Schematic drawings, international competition for Bastille Opera, Paris, France
[1982–1983]
