120 years of Eiffel Tower
120 years of Eiffel Tower
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- Fariska0
Apart the beautiful/ugly thing. the main question is why?
- Why not?detritus
- To inject a little life into the city that is know as Paris.WeAreDAG
- exactly, why not.WeAreDAG
- bingosikma
- What if they were about to add some glossy tubes in the Tower of London? Would that be an injection of life too?Corvo
- I think the Tower of London is horrifically awful Tat, so I'd relish a contemporary amendment.detritus
- Oops. I meant Tower Bridge.
Silly me. er.. a castle? that's different. Still - the British Museum is a good proxy..detritus - ..and the Norman Foster dome amendment is fucking gorgeous - so yeah - rewrite, redo.detritus
- Sorry - I meant Tower Bridge too. And it's not awful.Corvo
- From far off, I quite enjoy it, I guess - but up close it's ridiculous over-ornate tat.
IMO, obviously.detritus - well the fact that is has a certain bygone "style" is no reason to alter it. Or will you fix the eyes of Picasso's girls in 2020?Corvo
- 2020?Corvo
- It was made in the late 1900s to the template of a bygone era - THAT's why I dislike it. It started off fake.detritus
- Moment of stupidity - built in the late '19th century'.detritus
- hmm - but "fake" wasn't regarded false at that time - isn't that what the victs and the arts&crafts were all about?Corvo
- Like William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites? Art Nouveau has much of that "fake" spirit.Corvo
- That's fine for interior design - you can always paint over it! Not sure if wot u say applies to A&C tho - surely the opposite?detritus
- (apologies for word contraction there, I should've just spilled over to another note!)detritus
- didn't A&C aimed to fake/find an original "anglo-saxon" spirit? Sigurd, typefaces, "patterns" like it w/ "rescued"?Corvo