Dear Husband and I have watched several documentaries on a new hotel that has been built in Dubai. A man-made island has been created offshore to support a "tent building" that is sixty or more stories tall. Part of the skin of the building is canvas, and the building has the shape of a sail filled with wind.
One of the things that caught my attention was that the builders were commissioned to create a memorable design that would make the shape one of the ten most recognizable buildings in the world.
They drew two shapes which we recognized immediately, but left the rest unmentioned. That list has been on my mind all day.
They drew the Opera House in Sydney, and the Eiffel Tower. I might quibble with the Eiffel Tower as a building, but it is a memorable design.
These are some of the buildings that I think might have been on that top ten famous building list:
1. Sydney Opera House
2. Eiffel Tower
3. Taj Mahal
4. Coliseum
5. Space Needle in Seattle (or those in New York...think Men in Black)
6. The Geodesic Dome in Montreal
7. The Parthenon
8. Notre Dame
9. Pyramids
10...
Okay....what do you think belongs here? And, if we eliminate the Eiffel Tower because it is not a "building" that leaves two openings. I suppose the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lampur, or the Sears Tower in Chicago, or the World Trade towers qualify for a spot. Have a missed something glaring? Should the Tower of London be on the list, or the Palace at Westminster with Big Ben?
What's your vote?