Gaudí’s “Ghost of New York”.

How an AI artist brought a lost architectural dream to life, creating a hotel that never existed and yet suddenly becomes visible.

Imagine a 360-metre-high sculpture comprising nine towers fused together, right in the heart of Lower Manhattan, crowned by a star-shaped spire and built from iron, stone, mosaics and glass domes. This is precisely what Antoni Gaudí planned in 1908 for two American businessmen: the so-called “Hotel Attraction”. However, this monumental hotel design was never realised. Gaudí’s design consisted of a cluster of nine skyscrapers, which were to reach a height of 360 metres at an unspecified location in Lower Manhattan.