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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

CopenHill deserves a mention, although it would be nice if it were more of a blueprint for industrial architecture going forward, rather than a wonder unique to one progressive European country.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gRr6_bORSMs

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Fish are friends!

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

A shark would love this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

A true wonder!

Any time someone sees it they will wonder "why did someone build that thing?"

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

The whole of Benidorm is a modern Wonder

When you get home you wonder why you went, why you didn't catch any diseases and why you went to so many drag bars

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I'm sure wondering why they built that.

[โ€“] Mnemnosyne 3 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I can't think of a single thing built in the last century that will still be there in a thousand years. We may still build some cool stuff, but none of it is durable anymore it seems.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Survivorship bias. The ancient stuff that survived to the modern day are not more durable than contemporary engineering, they're just the 0.1% of structures that managed to survive this long.

The problem isn't that we can't build something that will last a millennium, it's that we rarely, if ever, need things to last that long. Nuclear waste storage facilities are the only thing that comes to mind. Everything else would need to be torn down and renovated or brought up to code at some point.

[โ€“] explodicle 5 points 1 month ago

These Late English signs seem to say the tomb is... cursed? They were trying to contain something evil. All the scouts we send in fall ill and die within days.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Hitler's flak towers are not going anywhere. There's other 20th century buildings which can last a thousand years with occasional maintenance, but those flak towers, nothing will take them down.

Most very old buildings that survived to this age, survived because the locals had a use for them and maintained them, or because they had a pyramidical shape. The colloseum was a castle, the parthenon a church, ... Without that usage, we'd only have the foundations and a few basements left.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I wanna work in a fish shaped building lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I definitely like the fish way better than that stupid church.

[โ€“] JohnDClay 2 points 1 month ago

Groups mostly stopped building nice buildings when marketing in other ways became cheaper.

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