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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 ...

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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 ...

In the 1930s, German architect and engineer Herman Sörgel hatched an ambitious plan that he believed could unify post-World War I Europe: partially drain the Mediterranean Sea and create a new ...

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 he referred to his proposal as a ...

On the cusp of the Great Depression, architect Hermann Soergel had a radical idea: Why not expand the landmass of Europe by draining part of the Mediterranean? It was all part of his plan to found the ...

At their closest point, Africa and Europe are just 8.7 miles (14km) apart, yet the Mediterranean sea prevents the two continents from meeting. But in 1928, a German architect proposed a plan called ...

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 ...

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 he referred to his proposal as a ...