*Once again it's Augmented Reality allied with Architecture Fiction.
"For the past several years Chicagoans have been following the debacle of the Chicago Spire, a 150-floor spiraling skyscraper designed by Santiago Calatrava that would have towered above every other building in the Western Hemisphere. Though due to mismanaged finances, an awful housing market, and the overall impact of the 2008 financial crisis the spire was never meant to be and all we got was a glorious 76-foot-deep hole (previously). (((Ow. That's got to be ominously symbolic of something-or-other. Somewhere there's an alternate Chicago with a Calatrava building, and one has to imagine that's a happier America.)))
"Recognizing this global trend of failed/experimental/never-to-be-built architecture, the Netherlands Institute of Architecture has teamed up with the Dutch postal service (TNT Post) to honor these architects and their unrealized designs in an incredible sheet of stamps...."
(((The cruelly unbuilt Chicago Spire:)))
