What is your country's most famous building?
What is your country's most famous building?
David Rivera
Jonathan Rogers
Not twin towers?
Oliver Robinson
shitty radio tower, highest building 200 years ago
literally Dubaï tier cringe
Dominic Martinez
The empire state
Isaac Walker
Eother the Alahambra or the goddam Sagrada Senpaiília in Barcelona wich is the current holder of "oldest building still under construction".
Joseph Reed
Pentagon
Camden Campbell
Dominic Butler
*ahem*
Ryder Martin
Cameron Ramirez
>F-A-M-ilia got memefiltered into Senpaiília
How's Okinawa Pvt. Gómez? Enjoying the weather?
Jack Morgan
Building?
Lucas Evans
I agree, you have way nicer shit than the TE. But it's like viral videos on youtube -- they're often shitty, yet somehow they become the iconic cultural snapshot of the year.
Levi Richardson
I went to a written trivia competition of 100+ people in Boston (the most Ph.D.s per capita in the U.S.) and I was the only one who could identify the Alhambra from photos. But our world or even european art/cultural history education standards for secondary school are literally nonexistent.
Justin Rodriguez
>Japan
For something immediately visually recognizable that foreigners actually know the name of (so not ) I would guess the Shinkansen?
Kevin Lewis
Tbh I don't even remember how the Alahambra looks from the exterior, but its our number one most visited site so tourists have to know how it looks, right?
Charles Moore
O Canada, you might sadly still be stuck with the CN Tower. You really should get your act together and think of something big and unnecessary and so Canadian, like a mile-high pine tree.
Ryan Carter
There are photos of the courtyard that are part of the "core curriculum" of art history. Yeah I cannot picture the outside facade either, but I can definitely picture the column capitals.
Isaac Brooks
dunno xd
Chase Jackson
Well, there's this.
Easton Brown
>that foreigners actually know the name of
The Atomic Dome
Luke Bailey
>Sagrada Familia
I looked it up -- Gaudi, of course, now I remember that building, and that is his iconic work that created the misconception that the word "gaudy" in English comes from his name.
That and Casa Mila and a couple of smaller things like a Metro station in Paris were used as the definition pieces of Art Nouveau architecture in our art history class.
Dominic Hughes
That strange university, UNAM.
Justin Barnes
Connor King
For me, it’s Bellas artes
Jayden Adams
> country of beautiful architecture, including centuries old chateaus and castles
Yeah the Effiel tower was mistake, what a meme
Noah Bailey
That's just another old building. UNAM is unique.
Mason Long
Too bad Cortes destroyed all your god-tier shit. Well, it was a mix of him and all the tribes that Montezuma pissed off over the years I guess. Still, Mexico City has pretty amazing stuff -- it's kinda just a matter of picking one thing and milking the shit out of it in your marketing.
Ethan Cooper
Oh and I also forgot about this one
Daniel Nelson
HOLY FUCK THAT PLACE IS REAL
I thought that was an interesting Escher knock-off at first. Omg I have to go see Belvedere.
Wyatt Ward
Also those, México has a lot of interesting buildings.
I know, it’s a real shame
Michael Carter
Oh shit I thought Chichen Itza was in Guatemala and was about to call you faggot but then looked it up and nope.
Mexicobro, Chichen Itza is known by everyone and so yeah that is def your best shit.