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A comment on Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

Re:Barcelona Supercomputing Center by late2part on Sunday October 30, 2016 @12:08PM (#12830526)
The aesthetic doesn't work for me, can't explain why, and I know a building is a building, but the dichotomy between old and new, subjective and objective, it just clashes.

I don't assert they should or need to appeal to my aesthetic, nor that the aesthetic value in any way impacts their ability or success.

Just a personal opinion and observation.

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Re:Barcelona Supercomputing Center by jawbone3 on Sunday October 30, 2016 @12:40PM (#12830704)
Personally I think its a bit too empty, they should expand it to two floors :)
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Re:Barcelona Supercomputing Center by honkhonkpants on Sunday October 30, 2016 @01:32PM (#12831017)
It seems to be an allusion to the christian cathedral in Córdoba that's built around a mosque.
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Re:Barcelona Supercomputing Center by greglindahl on Sunday October 30, 2016 @01:43PM (#12831079)
You have it backwards: the church was built in the middle of the mosque.
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Re:Barcelona Supercomputing Center by honkhonkpants on Sunday October 30, 2016 @08:00PM (#12833311)
Fair enough. My analogy was about the practice of remaking a place of worship into a place to worship something else.
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Re:Barcelona Supercomputing Center by JorgeGT on Monday October 31, 2016 @01:05PM (#12838667)
Funnily enough, the mosque was built atop the original Visigoth church. And God knows what was that church built atop of. Hm, maybe we should build a supercomputer on top of it!
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