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A church. We have one similar abortion in Solin over here.

Certainly. Thinking about it, Gothic architecture has several things which make it appear less "solid" compared to classical architecture: 1) As you said, ratio. Classical buildings tend to be broad, which means they fill up the visual area, while Gothic buildings go upwards. This is important...

Because it is beautiful. It is decorative yet elegant, founded in nature around us while at the same time reaching towards God. When you look at the details of Gothic architecture, and especially at its entirety, you will see that it has heavy influence of organic forms - looking at a Gothic...

I would need to know what "hold buildings" are in the first place. But as far as the Empire State Building itself goes: 1) Main reason, as with the Chrysler building as Skallagrim noted, is the top of the building which is - from afar at least - somewhat reminiscent of the roofs of bell towers...

Yeah, while the Empire State Building cannot exactly hold a candle to older architecture, it still looks outright beautiful compared to basically everything that came after it.

And I agree with that. But problem I have is that the Leftists/Marxists/Progressives have created this idea that in order to advance, we need to throw out everything from the past - including things that are good and beautiful. That is something I can never agree with. I don't want to live in an...

Republic of Dubrovnik practiced quarantine since 1337. And they actually built specialized facilities for it (called Lazareti): Problem I have with modern people is that we tend to forget what we are humans are while also acting as if we're so much smarter than our ancestors. From what I...

You are aware that stuff never happened? Nobody in the Middle Ages believed holy water stops the black plague. In fact, they knew about diseases as much as they could have. Hence this: Early gas mask and protective clothing. Now can we please stop pretending medieval people were stupid? If...

Old houses, at least stone ones here in Dalmatia, hardly need air conditioning. Stone walls and an actual roof do wonders for natural air conditioning. And majority of socialist Borg cuble block buildings don't have inbuilt air conditioning anyway, so you need to use heating in the flat itself...