Étienne-Louis Boullée.  Newton's Cenotaph. (proposed, never built).

Thank You so much!! i really needed to know that for an assignment :) 

That was pathetic, really. There's no hope for the younger generation.

wasn't t this covered in one of your architecture history classes?

Damn!  Time to watch Belly of an Architect.

+1

"That was pathetic, really. There's no hope for the younger generation"

but every generation says that ..

Anything directed by Peter Greenaway would be fine viewing!

Steven,

It's been a few years since I've viewed that project, but even I had to Google "French Cenotaphs" to get Boullee's name back in my head. 

I'm not all that computer savvy, but I think I nailed a response within seven minutes of this query being posted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Versailles#First_Empire_to_July_Monarchy_.281800.E2.80.931850.29

possibly Pierre François Léonard Fontaine?

the real question though is this; how does this individual know where to find the image, and then post said image, but doesn't know the architect? steven is on point though; youth is wasted on the wrong people.

the "youth" are not exclusively their own consequence

who cares if this kid is lazy?  the way arch history is taught is lazy.   I keep thinking that it would be far more useful for students to learn about the histories of settlement (and economics of the built environment), building types, and construction methods than it is to only memorize rather disconnected (aside from their place on the timeline) architects, names, and dates of "famous" houses and temples.

laziness is not get this kid to digest topics you suggest, especially since those topics require in depth research and analysis. this, is basic shit, we're visual people right? then this kid should just spend the time to acquire a rote level of appreciation for a basic foundation in a life long pursuit.

not dismissing your concerns, but i don't think this person has the ability to get into what you think is important.

history, in my initial posting, i was referring to the starter of this thread.

history repeat... The plan you posted is by Étienne-Louis Boullée as well.

Boullee's unbuit design for versailles was later used as a model for the Pella Palace by Ivan Starov.  This may help your research. 

beta - the OP's question was an identification question. If the question were about context (and sounded an awful-lot like the assignment question) then I'd be concerned.  They even understood that it wasn't built!  If the OP had never seen that image before - how the hell are they going to be able to look it up in the first place?  Maybe they don't know about tineye?

@history - obviously intelligence is based purely on accumulation of bits of information, recalling random facts, and knowing lots of industry and academic jargon.

oh - and asking for information online (in order to help you understand context - which neither you or the OP is asking for anyone to do your thinking for you) is "pathetic."  I'll remember that the next time I call the storefront rep and ask him to send me "information" on sill receptors.  He'll probably say that I'm pathetic and I should have learned what sill receptors look like in my building systems class.

clearly its from a powerpoint with a billion images a professor quickly flipped through.  been there.

next time:

1)  go to google images

2) drag the image into the search bar

3)  it will tell you what it is

BOOM!  wish i didn't find that out AFTER graduating.

toaster, if the person never saw the image before, then how did they get it? here, let me answer with my own idea; perhaps the assignment was an electronic hand-out? due89, and steven are highlighting my point though; knowing how to find the answer is as important, if not more so, than knowing the answer.

the ability to outsource those last minute questions to the world is pretty cool

that the answers also read like woody alan dream sequence is bonus.

google image search function is less fun, but faster and totally guilt free

This is why I carry flashcards of every important piece of architecture in my wallet.

Joking aside, I can think of at least 3 books on my shelf right now that I could probably thumb through and find the exact same image the OP posted in less than a minute or two.

But I also agree with b3tadine's question, how can you look up and post the image without finding out who the architect is. Wait, I think we just helped someone cheat on their on-line architectural history quiz.

Challenge Accepted! I'm not home right now so I don't have my books to actually verify that the image would be in any of these but I'm pretty sure you could find it in one of these if not more.

First, A World History of Architecture. I'm 90% sure it would be in there, but if not then...

Second, A Global History of Architecture. I'm not as familiar with this book so I'm not as sure that it would be in there.

Finally, Sources of Architectural Form. This would probably be my final effort and if I didn't find it in there I'd start looking up descriptions of the building in Google image search.

Google image search: "large sphere unbuilt architecture" shows up near the end of page one. But even that is unecessary, turns out regular google is even better, here, first result.

This link is better

genius, brian, genius. why do i get the sneaking suspicion that history is known entity on this site. as if that wasn't cryptic enough...

lol brian.

I got home and decided to see if I was as good with my books as I was with Google. Turns out I don't own A Global History of Architecture, I was borrowing if for a time but I don't have access to it now, so someone else will have to check that one. As for the others; in A World History of Architecture (1st Edition), it's on page 406, and in Sources of Architectural Form it fills up the top half of page 172.

Before you all start pointing fingers and complaining that I only had two books on my shelves that feature the project, I found the best presentation of it in Jonathan Glancey's Lost Buildings, pages 226-229. See the spreads here and here. If those links don't work try right clicking and selecting to open in new tab / window.

@ Priceless painting

*I'm trying to find out who did this design for "improvements to the Palace of Versailles"?*

These proposed improvements had been designed in 1780 by Ètienne-Louis Boullée too.

http://expositions.bnf.fr/boullee/grand/21.htm

Here the new cour d'honneur

Source:

http://expositions.bnf.fr/boullee/grand/24.htm

Oh, excuse me. I should have better read the following postings before answering.

Never mind.

Here is one of the rare depictions of Pella Palace (by Giacomo Quarenghi, source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pella_Palace

Pella's ground plan

The main wing of the Pella Palace 

hiii everyone that epic pic which you have posted is never been constructed that was just imagination

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