And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
But there were and are buildings just this grand. Look at pictures of some of the grand hotels built in the early 1900s to 1920s. Huge railroad stations, riverboats built like 5 star hotels. And don't forget bridges are some of the most amazing structures ever created.
Googe Image search says it's AI generated, but could be similar to the Ritz Carlton on Central Park South, NYC (it's actually much taller and not as nice). Looks a little like the Westin Palace, in Madrid.
and don't forget the craftsmen that fashioned the materials and gave life to what was a pile of parts. Artists all.
ReplyDeleteYou mean Chinese AI coders?
DeleteIt's the Ritz-Carlton in New York City. Wonder how long it will stay like that once the communist starts his term as mayor?
Delete@Jeff
DeleteNo it isn't
Not Africa, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteI agree regarding the beauty!
ReplyDeleteIt appears to me to be a one way street with the red vehicle at the bottom going the wrong way.
Astor Hotel?
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful building. I know of one of the same architecture, not as tall, made of cast iron.
ReplyDeleteThe wonders you can do with AI graphics...
ReplyDeleteBut there were and are buildings just this grand. Look at pictures of some of the grand hotels built in the early 1900s to 1920s. Huge railroad stations, riverboats built like 5 star hotels. And don't forget bridges are some of the most amazing structures ever created.
DeleteGooge Image search says it's AI generated, but could be similar to the Ritz Carlton on Central Park South, NYC (it's actually much taller and not as nice). Looks a little like the Westin Palace, in Madrid.
ReplyDeleteNever shall we see their like again.
ReplyDeleteLike to experience top of the line service in that hotel.
ReplyDeleteThere is a relatively new section in Shanghai that is entirely French architecture. It is quite interesting.
ReplyDeleteDave
That is a building combining utility with beauty. Compare it to the steel and glass monstrosities that pass for "architecture" these days.
ReplyDeleteImagine having your living space, a piece of that top floor.
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