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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by dustincoates on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:20AM (#36021856)
Incidentally, also said[0] about the Eiffel Tower and the Tour Montparnasse. (I agree with this last one, both at height and at ground level. I've long said that if I were a billionaire, I'd buy the tower just to tear it down.)

[0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/08/10/tower/?amp=1

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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by tsunamifury on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:37AM (#36022026)
Time redeemed one of those but the other is still called an ugly eye sore to this day…
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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by ohgodplsno on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:51AM (#36022177)
Montparnasse is a perfect example of cities in France going "on a second thought, let's not build more skyscrapers right in the middle of cities" in the 70s. See also: Part-Dieu, Tour Bretagne, Pleyel.
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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by wongarsu on Sunday May 21, 2023 @05:55PM (#36025022)
It's obviously hard to pin down, but apparently it took Parisians about 20-30 years to go from hating the Eiffel Tower to loving it. Tour Montparnasse hasn't managed to achieve that in the 50 years since it was built.
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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by morsch on Sunday May 21, 2023 @11:35AM (#36021999)
> Tour Montparnasse

Aka the box the Eiffel Tower came delivered in

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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by crazygringo on Sunday May 21, 2023 @05:19PM (#36024785)
I think that joke is told about literally every either ugly or retro famous building/landmark in the world.

If it's not referring to the best view, it's always where some famous architect claimed to stay when they visited, in order not to see the building from their window.

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Re:Paris’s Centre Pompidou to Close for Five Years Starting ... by amelius on Sunday May 21, 2023 @06:01PM (#36025059)
Wikipedia:

> A 2008 poll of editors on Virtualtourist voted the building the second-ugliest building in the world, behind Boston City Hall in the United States.

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