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 ...

Dive into the jaw-dropping Atlantropa project, a bold plan to dam and drain the Mediterranean Sea to create new land and generate massive hydroelectric power. Explore the audacious vision, engineering ...

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Episode: 2313 Herman Sörgel’s Atlantropa project: Lebensraum from a lowered Mediterranean. Today, we rewrite geography.

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 ...

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Imagine for a second that the combined powers of Europe pooled their resources and built a mega dam in the Mediterranean, creating a new land mass that could house millions of displaced people. It was ...

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 ...