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So, in 1937, plans surfaced for "Welthauptstadt Germania," or World Capital Germania ... times the size of St. Peter's Basilica with a dome 16 times larger and room for 160,000 people.
Hitler and Speer essentially planned to supersize them, with the pièce de résistance being a 99,000-square-meter (1,065,627-square-foot) Grand Hall, based on the dome of St Peter’s Basilica in ...
in height and covered with a giant dome, it would have been the largest domed building in the world — able to accommodate 180,000 people at once. A 3-D model of Germania, originally made for the ...
The oculus, or roof light, in the centre of the dome would, at 46 metres (150 feet ... Curiously, when you stand back and study Speer’s model of Germania, what it resembles least of all is ...
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