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That clock tower and hotel are an abomination and in bad taste.It's as if someone decided to put a Las Vegas style Casino style building right next to the Vatic

• spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
  I know I used to work for Dar Al Handasha (who designed that clock tower) and even as a non mulslim I think its a shocking way to treat they holy places.
  • Alex3917 11y ago
    In the west we do the same thing, e.g. just look at Niagra falls.
    • ericras 11y ago
      Better example might be the private Gettysburg National Tower that stood from 1974 to 2000: https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5481/11078991455_f4ebf6ffc0_b.jpg https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5481/11078991455_f4ebf6ffc0_b....
    • spacecowboy_lon 11y ago
      We haven't knocked down Stonehenge or the church of the holy nativity in Bethlehem. To build the tower I believe they demolished the prophets mothers house!
• dantheman 11y ago
  Las Vegas style casinos have more class than that building, it's truly terrible.
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• riffraff 11y ago
  to be fair, someone did decide to put a new design right thing next to the Vatican, and Via della Conciliazione[0] is widely criticized. (Yet, nowhere as bad as the clock tower, I would say). [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_della_Conciliazione https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_della_Conciliazione