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Still remain utterly baffled by people who hate this building. It's genuinely astounding when you go see it. A must visit for anyone who loves maths and or natu
by techterrier 11y ago
Still remain utterly baffled by people who hate this building. It's genuinely astounding when you go see it. A must visit for anyone who loves maths and or nature.
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- eru 11y agoPeople used to think the Eiffel tower looks out of place.
- sanoli 11y agoHappens with most (very) big structures when new. That London pink tower thing will probably be loved by londoners in a decade or two. And can definitely understand the backlash against the Eiffel at the time it was built. A huge, cold, all metal inorganic tower in the middle of our beautiful city? So ugly! <- a probably contemporary parisian.
- taejo 11y agoIt's much more beautiful close up than in pictures, IME. I had mixed feelings until I actually visited.
- StavrosK 11y agoYeah, it's extremely imposing up close. I recommend taking the calle de la Marina if you want to get there, seeing this enormous church among the low buildings is quite a sight.
- TheOtherHobbes 11y agoI think it's one of the most astonishing buildings on the planet - a literally breathtaking mix of geometry and organic forms.
- Schiphol 11y agoWhat many people dislike, myself included, is the Eurodisney flavor of it all: a team interpreting Gaudí sketches (there are no real construction plans, unfortunately), and recreating the "Gaudí looks" in concrete. Given our modern aesthetic sensitivities (in particular with regards to what we take to be the work of an individual genius) it would have been much better to leave it unfinished, at the point in which Gaudí's project no longer offered explicit guidance.