Tropical Babel (2014)

This was the case with Marcel Breuer and Herbert Berckhard, who partnered with Ernesto Fuenmayor and Manuel Sayago on “El Recreo,” a business and commercial complex that was also never realized, and with Dirk Bornhorst and Pedro Neuberger, two young German-born Venezuelan architects who were taken under the wing of Jorge (“Yoyo”) Romero Gutiérrez to help build modern Caracas. Hoping El Helicoide would catalyze the urban development of southern Caracas, a boulevard connecting the building to the Botanical Gardens (next to Villanueva’s recently inaugurated Universidad Central de Venezuela ) was planned. Others, including Pedro Neuberger, state that following Pérez Jiménez’s ousting, the main shareholders of El Helicoide (IVECA, a company owned by Roberto Capriles) fled the country, leaving the building financially adrift.

Source: failedarchitecture.com