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They said that (sans "practical") about the Eifel Tower too, back in the day. "How the Eiffel Tower outlasted its critics": https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/cha
by eternalban 5y ago
They said that (sans "practical") about the Eifel Tower too, back in the day.
"How the Eiffel Tower outlasted its critics": https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1120/How-the-Eiffel-Tower-outlasted-its-critics https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2015/1120/...
[edit: this quote is too delish: "a barbaric industrial object that even the Americans wouldn’t build it."]
- Veen 5y agoThey did, but I can't imagine that 100 years hence the Pompidou Centre will have the recognition or symbolism that the Eiffel Tower has today. The Eiffel Tower is iconic; the Centre Pompidou less so.
- eternalban 5y ago100 years from now, who knows, maybe our machine overlords will like it as a priceless example of "early humanoid Machine Romanticism".
- bryanrasmussen 5y agodo you have some metric that can determine the Eiffel Tower is indeed iconic and the Pompidou Centre not at all, or is it just based on the fact that one has lasted a long time?
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- AvocadoPanic 5y agoNumber of souviner models sold, or refrigerator magnets?
- cm2187 5y agoBy that standard it means there are no ugly buildings. There obviously are.
- 3np 5y agoI was considering the Eiffel Tower as I wrote that but at this point it feels more like a relic of the past that doesn’t make sense to view through a contemporary lens.