High level stupidity

[tinchote]

(I don't have an English link for this, although the original article is said to be in the Los Angeles Times)

The Los Angeles Times published an article showing that a certain building belonging to the US Army had the shape of a Nazi svastica cross.

Believe or not, the US Army will spend $600,000 to change the aerial appearance of the building (http://www.lanacion.com.ar/Varios/GaleriaImagenes/GaleriaImagenes.asp?nota_id=947949&imagen_id=723476&categoria_id=812&publicacion_id=17267) :eek:

[BDunnell]

Yes, I'm sure people could be easily influenced by that and turn to Nazism.

[BeansBeansBeans]

It's a fairly pointless exercise to change the aerial appearance of the building, but it's also quite clear that the architect knew exactly what he was doing when designing this series of buildings.

[BDunnell]

Much like this chap, as reported in the gardening club news of the Bournemouth Evening Echo in 1995:

'Mrs Eileen Graham, of Thorpe Avenue, Boscombe, delighted the audience with her reminiscence of the German prisoner of war who was sent each week to tend her garden. 'He was repatriated at the end of 1945', she recalled. 'He always seemed a nice, friendly chap, but when the crocuses he'd planted came up in the middle of my lawn in the spring of 1946, they spelt out 'Heil Hitler'.'

[tinchote]

It's a fairly pointless exercise to change the aerial appearance of the building, but it's also quite clear that the architect knew exactly what he was doing when designing this series of buildings.

I'm not so sure. If you look at the picture I linked to, the buildings around the questioned building have similar shapes, although not exactly the same. Being one among many, it's not that obvious that it was done on purpose.

[LotusElise]

I've seen that picture before somewhere. It's not quite a swastika because the buildings don't actually form the cross-piece in the middle though.

[Eki]

I'm not so sure. If you look at the picture I linked to, the buildings around the questioned building have similar shapes, although not exactly the same. Being one among many, it's not that obvious that it was done on purpose.
Yes, and if people didn't know what to look for, they may not even notice it. Especially if those heavy shadows weren't there. It would just look like four L-shaped buildings.

[Daniel]

Much like this chap, as reported in the gardening club news of the Bournemouth Evening Echo in 1995:

'Mrs Eileen Graham, of Thorpe Avenue, Boscombe, delighted the audience with her reminiscence of the German prisoner of war who was sent each week to tend her garden. 'He was repatriated at the end of 1945', she recalled. 'He always seemed a nice, friendly chap, but when the crocuses he'd planted came up in the middle of my lawn in the spring of 1946, they spelt out 'Heil Hitler'.'
Funny :D

[ChrisS]

It's a fairly pointless exercise to change the aerial appearance of the building, but it's also quite clear that the architect knew exactly what he was doing when designing this series of buildings.

Maybe he/she was a Buddhist

[LeonBrooke]

I've seen that picture before somewhere. It's not quite a swastika because the buildings don't actually form the cross-piece in the middle though.


No need to split hairs :D

That is funny.

[schmenke]

Maybe he/she was a Buddhist

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. The Nazis borrowed the swastika from the Buhddist cross.

[janneppi]

That's closer to the old Finnish airforce svastika than the nazi model since it's aligned with the surrounding roads instead of being in a 45 degree angle compared to them. ;)

[Eki]

That's closer to the old Finnish airforce svastika than the nazi model since it's aligned with the surrounding roads instead of being in a 45 degree angle compared to them. ;)
Air Force? It was also on tanks. I thought you'd knew that:

http://www.ainurin.net/history/finnish_swastika.htm

http://www.ainurin.net/history/images/swastika/tankki_risti.jpg

[janneppi]

They are completely different :D