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Originally Posted by Table 5
So when you go to Egypt, you don't check out the pyramids? When you go to NY, you don't go up the Empire State Building or Rockefeller Center? When you are in Paris, you don't glance at the Eiffel Tower? The Colosseum in Rome? Great Wall of China? Sydney Opera House?
Architecture is one of the top reasons why people travel. The vast majority of attractions in the world is some form of building structure. How can you say you don't find beauty in architecture? Beauty IS architecture!
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When I was in Egypt I thought it was cool to think about how the Pyramids were built and was more impressed with the sheer size of them, but I didn't find them "beautiful". It was more the engineering aspect that went into building them than the actual look of them. If they were built today I wouldn't be impressed with them at all.
The same is true with the Colliseum. It was cool to see how old it was and to think that they built it so long ago but it was "beautiful" to look at.
I think the Eiffel Tower is pretty ugly, but again the size of it is impressive and pretty cool.
The Empire State Building was cool because of its height but it isn't that beautiful to look at on its own. I wasn't that impressed with Rockefeller Center at all.
Haven't been to China to comment on the Great Wall but in pictures it again seems cool because of its size/age not because it looks beautiful.
I think the Sydney Opera House looks pretty stupid so don't consider it beautiful at all.
For me it is the historical aspects of these structures that make them cool not the architecture.