Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris recently announced plans to buy a Greek island to give refugees from the Middle East and Africa a country of their own. Though Sawiris referred to his proposal as a ...
In 1928, German architect Hermann Sörgel unveiled one of the most ambitious engineering visions ever imagined: Atlantropa, a ...
Herman Sörgel, a German architect, formulated one of history's most ambitious plans: to drain the ocean. This project, known as Atlantropa, would have represented the largest megaproject ever ...
Herman Sörgel proposed damming the Mediterranean Sea to create new land. This ambitious Atlantropa project aimed to generate ...
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What made Atlantropa so attractive was its vision of world peace achieved not through politics and diplomacy, but with a simple technological solution. Atlantropa would be held together by a vast ...
While Sörgel’s proposal may sound absurd to our ears, it was taken seriously by architects, engineers, politicians and journalists at the time. The extensive Atlantropa archive in the Deutsche Museum ...