Hotel Attraction
Antoni Gaudí designed a 360-metre hotel for New York decades before such a tower could be engineered or financed.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Never Born
- Peak stage
- detailed preproduction
- Research confidence
- medium
- Last verified
What it was
A highly ambitious New York hotel and entertainment complex attributed to Antoni Gaudí.
The project centred on a vast parabolic tower with themed halls and an observation space. Surviving drawings and later reconstructions suggest a proposal radically taller and more sculptural than contemporary skyscrapers.
Existence timeline
A monumental hotel scheme is developed for Manhattan.
Parabolic masses, public halls and a central tower are recorded.
The project does not progress to construction documents or a site build.
Project material becomes known through Gaudí's collaborators and archives.
Never Built New York places the hotel in a public archive of unrealised city plans.
Why it ended
The commission never progressed to an executable New York building and no construction began.
Last confirmed trace
Drawings associated with the project and scholarly reconstructions preserve the design, though parts of its commissioning history remain debated.
What it left behind
Hotel Attraction has become a durable image of an alternate Manhattan and of Gaudí working at a scale never realised in his lifetime.
How we classified it
The proposed archive unit never reached ordinary public access in the form being documented.
The strongest verified milestone maps to detailed_preproduction under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.