We haven’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família
since 1882. Very cool, i didn’t know this!
This video features more information about this building (but it is not the main topic). https://youtu.be/iRv_syz2DAc
I heard there’s a mall in Iceland that from above looks like a man’s wiggly jiggly bit. Forgot what it’s called but it’s still kinda funny.
That’s the exact picture and name I’m looking for. Thank you.
Forgot what it’s called
Penis. It’s called a penis
I meant I forgot what the mall was called.
You can say “penis” on the internet.
I can say penis. Fine, the mall looks like a penis.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The ancient stuff that survived to the modern day are not more durable than contemporary engineering
Basically any stone structure made for any reason will vastly outlast any steel reinforced concrete structure. Although concrete might appear superficially stone-like and unchanging it is actually porous and chemically active. Within about 100 years the steel rebar inside a concrete structure will rust, expand, and crack the concrete apart. Freeze-thaw cycles and plant activity will reduce it to rubble shortly thereafter.
Meanwhile a piece of stone block was already about a billion years old before it was cut out of the ground. A stone structure might be destroyed by earthquakes or human activity, but it does not have a built-in self destruct sequence countdown timer like SRC does.
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.
We absolutely can and sometimes we do.
I don’t know. There’s a bunch of giant statues that have been built. Buddhas, Guan Yu, Ghengis Khan, etc.
I have no idea if these were cheaply made, which I suppose is likely, but if they’re concrete/stone, I could see them possibly lasting.
There’s also the Longaberger Basket building.
This is like something Clarissa’s dad would make in Clarissa’s explains it all
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.
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Fish are friends!
A shark would love this.
In late game, Wonders are for culture and not science victories. We need to put more into one and get the other, as Canada just stole Einstein from me.
I mean, Sagrada Família im Barcelona is still under construction
It’s going to be funny when China finishes it first and the whole thing goes poof
The duomo took 600 years to be mostly complete and still has work being done though mostly restoration and maintenance. It has a marble quarry dedicated solely to it. Absolutely magnificent building, I did all the tours a few months ago, loved it.
That is why we don’t build buildings like it anymore, insanely expensive and time consuming. Plus our current rich people would rather rape kids on their massive yachts and private island than commission beauty to be admired by wider society like the wealthy of old.
Yeah, but what about the Taj mahal?
Was built 400 years ago, I wouldn’t consider it modern. Also not nearly as intricate as il duomo in decoration and masonry
I’m seeing Eric cartman saying “I live in a hotdog.”
A true wonder!
Any time someone sees it they will wonder “why did someone build that thing?”
we didnt
Groups mostly stopped building nice buildings when marketing in other ways became cheaper.
I’m sure wondering why they built that.
I definitely like the fish way better than that stupid church.
