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* [[Truth in Television]]: pretty much anything designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. |
* [[Truth in Television]]: pretty much anything designed by Nicholas Hawksmoor. |
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* ''[[Disney Theme Parks|The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror]]''. |
* ''[[Disney Theme Parks|The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror]]''. |
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* After the Soviets demolished the Temple of Christ the Savior, they planned to erect [ |
* After the Soviets demolished the Temple of Christ the Savior, they planned to erect [https://web.archive.org/web/20150828184830/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/a/a7/Dvorec_Sovetov%281951%29.jpg this] on its place. The tower was supposed to be 400m high and the statue of Lenin that crowns it - 100m high. |
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** [[North Korea]]’s [[wikipedia:Juche Tower|Juche Tower]] and [[wikipedia:Ryugyong Hotel|Ryugyong Hotel]] are two rather creepy-looking and rather tall monuments to the ego of Kim Il-Sung. The latter was even creepier-looking before they started putting the glass in. The Soviets, at least, had the good sense to notice how oppressive and money-wasting these sorts of projects looked. |
** [[North Korea]]’s [[wikipedia:Juche Tower|Juche Tower]] and [[wikipedia:Ryugyong Hotel|Ryugyong Hotel]] are two rather creepy-looking and rather tall monuments to the ego of Kim Il-Sung. The latter was even creepier-looking before they started putting the glass in. The Soviets, at least, had the good sense to notice how oppressive and money-wasting these sorts of projects looked. |
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*** To be fair, the monuments are perceived as Towers of Ominousness largely due to their associations with the fanatical regime that constructed them. Stylistically, the Washington Monument (ironically, it's pretty much of the same height as Juche) dominates the surrounding empty space no less than the Juche Tower, or any other obelisk built since the Egyptians, and the Empire State Building once towered over blocks and blocks of buildings 1/6 of its height no better than the Ryugyong Hotel, and considering the Great Depression, most of its offices were just as empty as the unfinished hotel rooms of its Korean counterpart. |
*** To be fair, the monuments are perceived as Towers of Ominousness largely due to their associations with the fanatical regime that constructed them. Stylistically, the Washington Monument (ironically, it's pretty much of the same height as Juche) dominates the surrounding empty space no less than the Juche Tower, or any other obelisk built since the Egyptians, and the Empire State Building once towered over blocks and blocks of buildings 1/6 of its height no better than the Ryugyong Hotel, and considering the Great Depression, most of its offices were just as empty as the unfinished hotel rooms of its Korean counterpart. |
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