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An even older example: Palacio da Pena, Sintra, Portugal http://www.neverendingvoyage.com/the-fairytale-palaces-of-sintra-a-photo-essay/ http://www.neverending

• mattkrause 10y ago
  But...that's old. It's almost inevitable that old buildings evolve in strange ways. According to the wikipedia article, it was a monastery, cathedral, and palace. Parts were hit by lightning and rebuilt; I'm sure others also needed repairs from other disasters, wear-and-tear, and changing usage. The fact that an old building ends up like that doesn't mean that new buildings should start looking like that. Imagine if someone said "this legacy code is an absolute mess, so this new project can be a spaghetti-coded disaster too!".