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an architectural drawing of a building with arches and stairs in front of blue sky background

As plans for the kilometre-high Kingdom Tower in Saudi Arabia are unveiled, London's Shard is nearly sheathed, and the Walkie-Talkie, Cheesegrater and Pinnacle all begin to emerge from the ground, we look back at 10 projects that weren't quite so fortunate in their bids to make it off the drawing ...

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Frunze Military Academy building, designed by Lev Rudnev and Vladimir Muntz (see War & Navy Commissariat). Decorative tank was demolished in 1941. Lives of many Academy graduates were destroyed much earlier, during the Great Purges. Photograph by Ivan Shagin

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Architect: Lev Rudnev, 1955, in a Stalinist-Gothic style similar to the seven Stalinist Skyscrapers in Moscow. The Palace of Culture and Science (Pałac Kultury i Nauki) was a controversial "gift" from the USSR. Now seen in historical perspective, a symbol of the city and a contrast to the modern high-rises surrounding. Downtown Warsaw, Poland.

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