Sunday, July 22, 2012

Rare perspective on Islam



It's an enormous new 5-star hotel that dominates the skyline and dwarfs the mosque that contains the Kaaba. Pics of it evoke Big Ben-Bellagio-Stalinism.

One culturally insensitive lout suggested Sauron's Tower in Mordor, from Lord of the Rings.








Truly bizarre.


What a similar arrangement might look like in Rome, with the Westin Times Square Hotel looming over St Peter's tomb...


3 comments:

Abdul exCathedra said...

This mega-hotel is still very much in the planning stages, and may ultimately be like Frank Lloyd Wright's "mile-high" building. I understand, that if everything goes right, California's high speed rail line will have a station at the hotel.

I hope to see Mr. exCathedra in the bar car.

Unknown said...

I know I'm going to out myself as a geek, but that's Saruman's tower, not Sauron's.

OreamnosAmericanus said...

Geeks are always welcome at Ex Cathedra, who has himself been occasionally accused of being a pointy-headed intellectual.

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