WTC Memorial Chosen

[Patroklos]

The same point of you mentioning things you don't like.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Spiffor
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

I live in Washington (well, basically - I live in Fairfax County) and I like the buildings. I hated the one trip I've made to NYC - there's too much STUFF.

[Imran Siddiqui]

And it's predominantly ugly.

The mall is perhaps the most beautiful place in any US city.

[Alexander's Horse]

Originally posted by PLATO
It does seem to be lacking something. I just can't put my finger on it...

Twin towers?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

And it's predominantly ugly.

The mall is perhaps the most beautiful place in any US city.

[PLATO]

Originally posted by Alexander's Horse


Twin towers?

You know, there may just be some psychological validity to what you say.

Damn Terrorist.

[GePap]

Originally posted by skywalker
I live in Washington (well, basically - I live in Fairfax County) and I like the buildings. I hated the one trip I've made to NYC - there's too much STUFF.

So basically, your provicial Washingtonian self was overwhelmed by a real big city?

[GePap]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
The mall is perhaps the most beautiful place in any US city.

To how many US cities have you been?

[Boris Godunov]

I don't see how anyone could find the Mall "beautiful." At best, it's just bland.

Long, flat, featureless grass rectangle, plus straight, symmetrical orange sandy paths, surrounded by oversized, monolithic, blocky white tombs. Perhaps there are some who find blocky, symmetrical geometry "beautiful." *shrugs*

I'd like to see this person in a place of genuine civic beauty, like Hyde Park. Central Park even trumps the Mall--it at least has hills, woods, meadows, lakes and ponds and trees that aren't all in a straight line.

[Tattila the Hun]

"The Arizona memorial is considered to be one of the ugliest ones in existance."
Isn't it supposed to represent the capsised Arizona, a bottom of a ship? Or was it just on the exact spot, where Arizona lays?

[Boris Godunov]

The memorial is a walkway over the actual carcass of the ship. Apparently, it's hideously ugly...

[Patroklos]

DELETED, double post.

[Patroklos]

It is, and if you had ever been there, you would see it is covered in rust. I am not sure how an uimaginative shape of pressed sheet metal with no features except rectangular glassless slips qualifies as anything special. There ar car dealershi pshowrooms here with more taste.

But just so I have a litmus, what do you consider to be an ideal example of architecture? If you have ecclectic (sp) tastes that is fine, so do I, but pick something so I can understand what you are using for comparison.

Please, of course