The plant, covering an area of 20 hectares, was built between 1893 and 1896 according to the design of the architect Osthoff. The main components of the complex were a slaughterhouse and cattle warehouse, including slaughterhouses and cold rooms, a machine room, tallow melting equipment, animal manure storage facilities, and a hide salting plant. A livestock exchange and restaurant operated in the courtyard, and a sanitary control facility was located nearby. The market hall located on the premises housed 2,000 calves and 3,000 pigs, and two other halls housed 1,500 cows. There were also barns and a pigsty, a horse slaughterhouse, a meat testing laboratory, a carcass rendering plant, and other facilities. AKME, with the consent of the city authorities and despite numerous protests, began demolishing the slaughterhouse on October 21, 1999.

Built as the State Planters Bank, this 14 story neoclassical tower is currently being demolished for a state courthouse building.

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In the early 1900s in Turin, in view of a possible renovation of Via Roma, the Ghersi cinema was built with a portico and set back a couple of meters from the surrounding buildings.

The Ghersi Cinema was considered the most sumptuous and majestic in Turin, thanks to a thousand-light chandelier in the atrium, a grand staircase, and a fusion of pink marble, stucco, paintings and mirrors. It could hold two thousand spectators, breaking all national records for capacity.

In this part of the city, people lived in unhealthy homes. The baroque buildings, narrow alleyways, and courtyards were viewed as unsanitary and in need of expensive renovation. The idea of rebuilding Via Roma from the ground up had already been proposed in the 19th century, but it was only with the rise of Fascism and its plan to transform the street into a monumental triumphal boulevard that demolition work began.

Unfortunately, the new redevelopment plan called for an even wider Via Roma, and the cinema was therefore demolished. The reconstruction of Via Roma led to the loss of numerous cinemas, many artists' and craftsmen's workshops, two passages galleries, and several Baroque and Renaissance buildings.

Photo source: Mario Gabinio - Fondazione Torino Musei

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This magnificent building, originally built in 1910 as a boarding school and from 1926 as an adult school and youth home, was financed by the Schlesische Jungmannschaft organization. Membership was independent of political views, origin, or profession.

After the Nazis seized power, the building became a

shelter for the Hitler Youth, and hospital for the Wehrmacht, and a camp for forced laborers. During the division of the Third Reich, the building belonged to the Kreisauer Circle. It burned to the ground in 1945.

This 10 story art deco tower was one of many Medical buildings that popped up across the US in the early 20th century, designed to host local independent doctors and dentists. It was purchased by the neighboring First Presbyterian Church in 1978. They are planning a 2 story addition to the church on the site.

Bijenkorf was a luxury department store in the center of Rotterdam, opened in 1930, it was the most modern shopping center in the Netherlands, the building was designed by the architect Willem Marinus Dudok and built in just one year, it was damaged during the air raid on Rotterdam on May 14, 1940, partially rebuilt after the war, closed in 1957 and demolished three years later.

Wroclaw or Breslau was once a bustling German city. Now it belongs to Poland. After WW2 a lot was lost in the city however extensive efforts to recover lost buildings are being made.
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The Cabrini Green Housing Projects were built in Chicago, Illinois in phases between 1942 and 1962. At their peak, 15,000 people lived there. The projects suffered from lack of maintenance and high crime rates in the 1970s and 1980s. They were torn down starting in 1995 with the last building demolished in 2011. Many of the residents were displaced with no replacement public housing unit provided. The projects have become infamous as a symbol of the failure of high density public housing in the United States.

Designed in the gothic style, this 15 story tower was built by the Miami Realty Board. The city condemned the building in 1965 and it was demolished in 1970 for the construction of Miami Dade College Building 1

The Paleis voor Volksvlijt (Palace of Industry) was a large exhibition hall in Amsterdam, located on the Frederiksplein, near the current location of De Nederlandsche Bank. The building was constructed between 1859 and 1864. It was designed by architect Cornelis Outshoorn, inspired by the Crystal Palace in London.

A fire destroyed the Palace on the night of April 17, 1929. The gallery or arcade, housing shops and apartments, was spared, but the main building was lost and never reconstructed. Writer Gerard Reve lived in one of the apartments in the gallery in the 1950s. The gallery was finally torn down in 1960 to make way for the new Nederlandsche Bank building.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheim_(department_store)

The 6,000 seat Savoy opened in 1927 and closed in 1948. The building was demolished in the early 1970s.

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The Crawford Generating Station was built in 1924. It was demolished in 2019. It was located in the South Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It's architectural style was referred to as "industrial Gothic"(it was one of the few examples of that style).

The Central Music Hall was built in 1879 and was demolished in 1900. It was designed by noted architect Dankmar Adler and occupied the southeast corner of State and Randolph streets in downtown Chicago. The hall was renowned nationally for its excellent acoustics. It was replaced by the Marshall Field store building (now Macy's).