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Incidentally, also said[0] about the Eiffel Tower and the Tour Montparnasse. (I agree with this last one, both at height and at ground level. I've long said tha
by dustincoates 3y ago
Incidentally, also said[0] about the Eiffel Tower and the Tour Montparnasse. (I agree with this last one, both at height and at ground level. I've long said that if I were a billionaire, I'd buy the tower just to tear it down.)
[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/08/10/tower/?amp=1 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/08/10/tower/?amp=1
- morsch 3y ago> Tour Montparnasse Aka the box the Eiffel Tower came delivered in
- tsunamifury 3y agoTime redeemed one of those but the other is still called an ugly eye sore to this day…
- ohgodplsno 3y agoMontparnasse is a perfect example of cities in France going "on a second thought, let's not build more skyscrapers right in the middle of cities" in the 70s. See also: Part-Dieu, Tour Bretagne, Pleyel.
- wongarsu 3y agoIt's obviously hard to pin down, but apparently it took Parisians about 20-30 years to go from hating the Eiffel Tower to loving it. Tour Montparnasse hasn't managed to achieve that in the 50 years since it was built.
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- amelius 3y agoWikipedia: > A 2008 poll of editors on Virtualtourist voted the building the second-ugliest building in the world, behind Boston City Hall in the United States.