Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegal has almost completed: Colossus

[Neil]

What about all of America's monuments?

Does America actually have any nice monuments?

[The Larch]

I'd even go further: virtually no really impressive building, place or monument has been constructed by democratic rich European countries. All the really impressive architectural feats were by monarchies or dictatorships. Stuff like Baron Haussman's redesign of Paris would not work in modern times.

I guess that Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" is the exception to the rule, then.

[Cecil]

I'd even go further: virtually no really impressive building, place or monument has been constructed by democratic rich European countries. All the really impressive architectural feats were by monarchies or dictatorships. Stuff like Baron Haussman's redesign of Paris would not work in modern times.

I guess that Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" is the exception to the rule, then.

Call us back when they finish the thing. Problem is that most of us are long dead by then. And even so I think the best description of the damn thing I saw would be tacky and tasteless. I prefer the cathedral tbh.

[Neil]

I'd even go further: virtually no really impressive building, place or monument has been constructed by democratic rich European countries. All the really impressive architectural feats were by monarchies or dictatorships. Stuff like Baron Haussman's redesign of Paris would not work in modern times.

I guess that Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" is the exception to the rule, then.

Not at all.

[jimmy olsen]

France was a republic when the Statue of Liberty was built wasn't it?

The Statue of Liberty in Paris is not particularly impressive. It's just 10 meters or so high. The Eiffel Tower would be an exception though as it was built by the Third French Republic.

What about all of America's monuments?

Did you miss the word "European" in Neil's and my posts? 

Yes.

Also, the Statue of Liberty isn't only 10m tall.

"The statue is 151 ft (46 m) tall, but with the pedestal and foundation, it is 305 ft (93 m) tall."

I assume you are continuing this as a jest, Tim? After all, I'd hate to think your reading skills are that bad...

People see what they expect to see.

I had no idea there was a statue of Liberty in Paris and assumed he was talking about the same statue I was.

[Grallon]

...



Women walk past rubbish heaps and unfinished homes in a neighborhood at the base of the nearly-completed 50-meter-high (328-foot-high) bronze statue dubbed the Monument of the African Renaissance in Dakar, Senegal.

Nothing like like erecting monuments to the inflated egos of african leaders while their people are living in and eating shit.    

Silly 3rd worlders.




G.

[The Larch]

I'd even go further: virtually no really impressive building, place or monument has been constructed by democratic rich European countries. All the really impressive architectural feats were by monarchies or dictatorships. Stuff like Baron Haussman's redesign of Paris would not work in modern times.

I guess that Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" is the exception to the rule, then.

Not at all.

The Big Ben and the Monument to Vittorio Emmanuele II were the other two that came to my mind... 

[The Larch]

I'd even go further: virtually no really impressive building, place or monument has been constructed by democratic rich European countries. All the really impressive architectural feats were by monarchies or dictatorships. Stuff like Baron Haussman's redesign of Paris would not work in modern times.

I guess that Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" is the exception to the rule, then.

Call us back when they finish the thing. Problem is that most of us are long dead by then. And even so I think the best description of the damn thing I saw would be tacky and tasteless. I prefer the cathedral tbh.

It is scheduled for 2026, so I guess that all of us will get to see it finished. 

[Cecil]

I'd even go further: virtually no really impressive building, place or monument has been constructed by democratic rich European countries. All the really impressive architectural feats were by monarchies or dictatorships. Stuff like Baron Haussman's redesign of Paris would not work in modern times.

I guess that Barcelona's "Sagrada Familia" is the exception to the rule, then.

Call us back when they finish the thing. Problem is that most of us are long dead by then. And even so I think the best description of the damn thing I saw would be tacky and tasteless. I prefer the cathedral tbh.

It is scheduled for 2026, so I guess that all of us will get to see it finished. 

[Admiral Yi]

Nothing like like erecting monuments to the inflated egos of african leaders while their people are living in and eating shit.    

Silly 3rd worlders.

Sort of like the Montreal Olympics?

[Razgovory]

What about all of America's monuments?

Does America actually have any nice monuments?

In Nebraska there is a cow made entirely from barbed wire.  It might be a buffalo. 

[Caliga]

Carhenge. 

[Neil]

The Big Ben and the Monument to Vittorio Emmanuele II were the other two that came to my mind... 

The industrial revolution was glorious, wasn't it?  Mind you, neither of those countries were really democracies.

[Neil]

Nothing like like erecting monuments to the inflated egos of african leaders while their people are living in and eating shit.    

Silly 3rd worlders.

Why are they silly?  That's what civilized people do.

[Razgovory]

Nothing like like erecting monuments to the inflated egos of african leaders while their people are living in and eating shit.    

Silly 3rd worlders.

Why are they silly?  That's what civilized people do.

Well how would Grallon know?