I think it would end up inauthentic. We have lost the skills and confidence of building like the Empires of old. We aren't strong as a civilisation. I almost feel like we aren't worthy. The buildings they made were useful to them at the time, not simply self-congratulating edifices (apart from relatively small monuments and statues.) The flair, size and beauty of their cities were symbols of how well their societies functioned and how powerful they felt as people. Us copying their styles now is bound to fall short, because we're in the decline stage. I don't want to build a mockery, or a masturbatory temple to the ashes of our civilisation, while our people are raped and killed without us being able to protect them.
If this building is solely for celebrating our history… why not just go and look at our historical buildings, some of which are still standing after thousands of years? Why make a new thing to represent history? Our history is already staring us in the face all over Europe.
When we have fallen and then risen again we will make beautiful and enormous buildings naturally. I think this would end up feeling modern and contrived tbh.
Jordan Ramirez
Is to combat that perception of decline and to start a new begining that only worthy people would be atracted to, it would be like a spiritual noah's ark where all the pure people would feel atracted
Nolan Ward
It already exists, it's called Europe. You yanks have no concept that this beautiful land is covered in artistic masterpieces.
Just like Israel-ISIS started destroying historical greek monuments at random, so did the americans bomb every cathedral and historical site they could in WW2. You fucking kike mercenaries.
Jaxson Fisher
Im european and you dont seem to have understood the concept behind it , stay silent
Charles Sanders
And where in Europe does a suitable place for that exist, that you would get planning permission for it?
I'm not against the idea per se, I'm just saying it would have to be done very thoughtfully to be tasteful. And definitely not to be led by Americans. As European as they are, their country is too young for them to really understand living history. If you're born in Europe you're almost guaranteed to have grown up around 800+ year old buildings.
Gabriel Martin
And in many cases thousands of year old structures. Pic related is a Victorian railway bridge (one of the first in the world) behind Roman battlements.
Not necessarily. If you believe the theories that some/most ancient egyptian temples were built by a pre-historic civilization, then it's likely that they were built as a sort of arc by a civilization that knew that it was doomed, in the hope that in the future some other men would arise that could do something with the knowledge (and the ancient Egyptians were those guys).
If this was a real project and I could actually trust the people behind it. (I.E a trusted architectural firm and an organization that wants to run the museum.) then I would donate several thousand dollars AND I'm probably not the only one.
Xavier Hernandez
We should build a massive megastructure and name it Temple Evropa, it's where the Grand Emperor would be crowned.
Logan Morgan
Thats one of the problems like the other user has said, moder architecture studies are imbued with all postmodernist values so letting them built would be a sacrilege to what we are trying to built and express
