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mot78 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:49 PM Original message |
Architecturally, what do you think of the WW II Memorial? |
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bryant69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. Looks pretty good to me |
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AgadorSparticus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
2. i think it is a gaudy monstrosity. and i'm not happy about its location. |
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mot78 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:01 PM Response to Reply #2 |
7. I like the Vietnam Memorial, but it's become copied a million times over |
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OneBlueSky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 11:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
32. exactly what I was thinking . . . |
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Eloriel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
3. From what I've seen of it on TV (not your photo) |
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Wilber_Stool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
4. It looks like |
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diamond14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 08:57 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. absolutely...it's a major nazi-type Austrian-German architecture... |
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diamond14 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:39 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Triumphal Arches are monuments to WAR (photos of arches) |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
5. Really nice architecture |
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Piperay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:00 PM Response to Original message |
6. Too obtrusive |
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
8. I like it...its sensitive to context, but also a contribution.... |
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Spinzonner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
9. A little bit of Stonehenge on Steroids |
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FloridaPat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:12 PM Response to Original message |
10. I got to see it a couple of weeks ago. I like it. A lot of my |
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. Its interesting it isnt a 'building" in the conventional sense |
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Leilani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
12. Architecturally, it looks like a Neo-Classical Ode |
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burrowowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. The neo-classical |
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RobinA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 07:52 PM Response to Original message |
14. Don't Like It |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
15. Yuck. |
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:55 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Probably laurel wreaths. |
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Catt03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 08:12 PM Response to Original message |
16. Too busy and gaudy but glad WWII vets and families |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
17. Fascist Modernism. Cold. Oppressive. Superficial. |
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LuLu550 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 08:33 PM Response to Original message |
18. Looks a bit like the stuff |
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 10:02 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. Oh, you mean like this? |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
20. At first glance I like it, but I'd have to be there to get an impression |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:41 PM Response to Original message |
22. Unimaginative. Maudlin. Derivative. |
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Dont Hurt Me (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:46 PM Response to Original message |
23. I like it |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
24. Looks like a quarter-scale rendition of one of Albert Speer's designs. |
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kodi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 10:13 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. yeap, either national socialist or soviet architecture, with big tailfins |
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kiahzero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:56 PM Response to Original message |
26. My first thought was |
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democracyindanger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 09:59 PM Response to Original message |
27. Reifenstahlicious. |
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bikebloke (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 10:01 PM Response to Original message |
28. I pedal by it every day, on the way to work. |
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Waverley_Hills_Hiker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat May-29-04 10:17 PM Response to Original message |
31. funny ,all these "Nazi" remarks...really ignorant, actually. |
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Norquist Nemesis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun May-30-04 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
33. I was impressed... |
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