hope this isnt a repost....US Navy
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Surely somebody saw the blueprint of this before it was built?
That AP photo is of a U.S. Navy barracks in Coronado, California. It's a complex built in the 1960s, according to the LA Times. Here's a nugget:
The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.
The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.
From the ground and from inside nearby buildings, the controversial shape cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view to airline passengers.
But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis.
And here's the link.
That AP photo is of a U.S. Navy barracks in Coronado, California. It's a complex built in the 1960s, according to the LA Times. Here's a nugget:
The U.S. Navy has decided to spend as much as $600,000 for landscaping and architectural modifications to obscure the fact that one its building complexes looks like a swastika from the air.
The four L-shaped buildings, constructed in the late 1960s, are part of the amphibious base at Coronado and serve as barracks for Seabees.
From the ground and from inside nearby buildings, the controversial shape cannot be seen. Nor are there any civilian or military landing patterns that provide such a view to airline passengers.
But once people began looking at satellite images from Google Earth, they started commenting about on blogs and websites about how much the buildings resembled the symbol used by the Nazis.
And here's the link.
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False. Its just a motif pulled from the Greek meander design. The PSU library has it all over the one facade.
I have to say though, I can't see it being unintentional. Its a nice layout though- besides the whole swastika thing.
I have to say though, I can't see it being unintentional. Its a nice layout though- besides the whole swastika thing.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swastika
h:edit: more info:
swastika (svastika): (Sanskrit) "Sign of auspiciousness," From su ("wellness," "auspiciousness") and astu, "be it so."
The ancient Hindu symbol of good fortune, representing the sun. The right-angled arms of the swastika denote the indirect way Divinity is reached - through intuition, not by intellect. It has been a prominent icon in many cultures.
See: murti.
(See also: Swastika , Hinduism, Body Mind and Soul)
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