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Originally Posted by Boquillas
Also, @CroBurnham: the hubris elements of the building are most decidedly western-inspired. Nobody does hubris better than Americans. The art-deco Chrysler building seemed uncommonly garish and cheap
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Yes, yes, the Americans do hubris the best (and the western Europeans do unfounded self-righteousness best); yes, this Disneyesque-schlock is western-inspired. So what? It's still hubris-ridden schlock dwarfing one of the most important religious/cultural sites in the world.
Perhaps because of my American hubris, I am fully confident this will
neverbe equated aesthetically with the Chrysler Building or anything other than an enormous, offensive pile of architectural doo doo. But if someone were to propose a crescent-adorned Chrysler Building (rather than a giant crescent-adorned Big Ben) on top of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, I would say it is equally hubris-ridden schlock too, and a materialistic affront to the spiritualism that is at the core of the religion.
I'd expect something like this next to a Scientology Temple or one of those for-profit Televangelist cathedrals in California.