WTC Memorial Chosen

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Patroklos
Once again, you are grossly in the minority on this one. Not that that makes you wrong, you are entitled to your opinion.

Says you...any proof? I've never met anyone who appreciates Washington for its architecture. Indeed, everyone I know finds it boring as well. Who likes it (besides you)?

What's to like about enormous, features hunks of colorless marble lining a wide, featureless piece of flat grass with sandy footpaths?

I don't see how anyone could think Washington is a paragon of architectural wonder while complaining about the proposed WTC design...good lord...

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Says you...any proof? I've never met anyone who appreciates Washington for its architecture. Indeed, everyone I know finds it boring as well. Who likes it (besides you)?

The only people I know who lived in Washington(my cousin and her husband) hated it, found it boring and ugly. They preferred NY much better

[Boris Godunov]

Spiffor, as a Frenchman, do you think there is any significant number of people there who view the Eiffel Tower as ugly and garish?

[Patroklos]

It is called epic style, and it is why the Virginia Tech school or architecure sends its students there every year. And since they are YOUR freinds, I am sure they think like you on a host of things. But then again it isn't as if DC is in any way uniform in its architecture. I suppose you despise all the cities of Europe for their classical epic architecute, and of course nobody appreciates tem either And since when were the facades of Washington featureless.

Do the glass cubes of today offer you more features, or the concrete cubes of twenty years ago? There is a reason why architecture like Washington has survived thousands of years, and it isn't because it is not appreciated.

[Patroklos]

I would suppose bieng from France epic architecture is nothing special to them, but huge glass skycrapers are.

And who said anything about the French finding it gaudy, I said people.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Patroklos
There is a reason why architecture like Washington has survived thousands of years, and it isn't because it is not appreciated.

Yes -- the tenacity of people with poor taste has spanned for centuries, unfortunately.

[Patroklos]

I am sure that is it

[MrFun]

I bet a fabulous memorial could be set up through a special show called "Queer Eye for the WTC Memorial."

[Patroklos]

I guess they would need a sixth member, the architect. They could redue famous buildings around the world.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
Spiffor, as a Frenchman, do you think there is any significant number of people there who view the Eiffel Tower as ugly and garish?

There was. The Eiffel Tower was harshly criticized when it was built, but I haven't heard of any criticism in my whole lifetime.
OTOH, everybody still considers the Montparnasse tower (Paris' only skyscraper) as an ugly speck we'd wish to see removed :vomit:

[Patroklos]

I thought you had strict hieght rules in Paris, isn't the highrise buisness district miles from the city proper?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Patroklos
And who said anything about the French finding it gaudy, I said people.

The people I referred to lived in Washington longer than a great many Americans

[Patroklos]

Finding the Eifel Tower gaudey Spiffor.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Patroklos
I thought you had strict hieght rules in Paris, isn't the highrise buisness district miles from the city proper?

Yep. The Skyscraper in Paris has been built before that law had been passed IIUC. And it does be an unglyspeck in Paris

[Boris Godunov]

We're talking about central DC, the mall area, and that's not "epic" style, it's predominantly Neo-classical. And it's predominantly ugly.

I'd have to wonder if you've even been to a European city if you think DC somehow resembles one--it certainly doesn't. As I said, even the classical architecture of ancient Greece and Rome at least had color, which DC hasn't. The only building there with color is Smithsonian Castle, which looks jarringly out of place.

And some people will find pretty much any building unattractive, so I don't see what the point was of mentioning the Eiffel Tower in that regard?