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Let's not have any skyscraper envy here.
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Now here's a skyscraper...
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I prefer the design that had the giant Mecha-Jesus, able to move around the building, ready to swat down any incoming Infidel aircraft. Oh well - I guess animatronic technology just isn't good enough.
Someday...
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Our first feeble attempts at reaching the Dream.
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Funny you bring up Mecca, as that city has become a new hotbed for skyscraper construction. The area surrounding the mosque's one-of-a-kind location coupled with growing wealth and travel among the world's billion-plus Muslims have made gotten developers putting up dense walls of towers in the 50 floor range.Originally posted by Tattila the Hun
It's holey ground allready... Just remove the e.
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As for the new World Trade Center design, it's a lot like an old design for a new stock exchange, originally proposed for the east side of Lower Manhattan.
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I like the stock exchange building better.
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Originally posted by Geronimo
boring tall buildings are at least better than boring short buildings. All buildings are technically boring because all buildings will have no shortage of pretentious artsy critics who say they are ugly or boring. However nobody can complain that the tallest building in the world is short.
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At least all the designs are a reflection of American foreign policy: flipping the bird to everyone else.
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Parallelepipeds. They're even inferior to a cubeOriginally posted by Boris Godunov
They weren't cubes, either.
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Wouldn't cuboid just do Spiff?
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Didn't know this word; Thanks for teaching it
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Oh yeah, and in that picture of Mecca at the top of the page...have the Borg landed or something?Speaking of Erith:
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They weren't even that, sorry. Hexagonal prisms.Originally posted by Spiffor
Parallelepipeds. They're even inferior to a cube
And you think that's inferior to a cube-shaped building?
Last edited by Boris Godunov; July 1, 2005, 10:03.Tutto nel mondo è burlaComment
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This:
is about as enthusiasming (but not quite as much) as this:
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"I never had the need to have a boner." -- Dissident
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