We haven’t. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagrada_Família
The duomo took 600 years to be mostly complete and still has work being done though mostly restoration and maintenance. It has a marble quarry dedicated solely to it. Absolutely magnificent building, I did all the tours a few months ago, loved it.
That is why we don’t build buildings like it anymore, insanely expensive and time consuming. Plus our current rich people would rather rape kids on their massive yachts and private island than commission beauty to be admired by wider society like the wealthy of old.
butt actually
RIch people used to comission great works, but today it seems like they have abandoned that one duty they have.
Pff
That is National Fisheries Development Board in Hyderabad, India.
There’s also the Longaberger Basket building.
Idk if this is truly a wonder, but when I heard about it earlier this year I was stunned by how magnificent it looked. NJ opened the largest Hindu temple outside of Asia last fall. It looks crazy.
Also pretty sure theres a church in Spain that is still being built that was started in the 1500s or some shit and is in the exact same style of gothic architecture as shown above.
I heard there’s a mall in Iceland that from above looks like a man’s wiggly jiggly bit. Forgot what it’s called but it’s still kinda funny.
Insert Mr. Crabs “Money” meme here.
The Large Hadron Collider and the International Space Stations are amazing wonders. It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research. Some people apparently have a problem with this, and they’re generally not the sort of people I like to be around.
Highway systems are also massive.
It used to be that humanity’s most expensive projects were religious temples. Now it’s machines for scientific research.
I wish that were true, but the world spends far more on machines of war than we spend on science.
Warfare science is still science and often has the benefit of funding groups that develop civilian science as well. Civie science doesn’t pay as well as the brass do
Same thing
Those are exceptions. The majority of our (visible) expensive projects today are homages to power and money
Yep. It’s 2024, and rich men are still funding projects to glorify themselves and assuage their ego.
This is the Large Halibut Collider
I’m already married but can arrange a quickie divorce if you’ll just
“This meme was brought to you through a single piece of glass several thousand miles long, at the bottom of the ocean”
Undersea cables do have repeater stations, but your point still stands because those are also an engineering marvel.
Undersea fiber optic Internet trunk lines, for anyone who missed the joke
There’s also this.
If I was a rich person, I’d build a pyramid out of concrete in a more modern style, with the peak being made out of glass for maximum view, as a home.
I’d put a saltwater lake in the center surrounding a 100’ tall Cypress tree.
At least it wouldn’t fall over.
It’s not a real rich man pet project if it doesn’t end up in a catastrophe!
A pyramid doesn’t inherently have a wide base. See Transamerica pyramid as example.
According to this, that seems to be the exception to the rule: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparison_of_pyramids_SMIL.svg
They managed to build a pyramid that can fall over.
How do you get an interactive svg like that? I’ve never seen that before.
The Vegas orb thing probably qualifies as a wonder.
Do you mean The Ball or The Globe?
According to google I mean the Sphere, apparently?
Oh, that orb thingy. Got it.
When did humans stop building mega-churches?
You’re not going to believe this, but…
Interesting how the entire focus of the stadium is on the preacher himself instead, for example, the works of Gawwwwwwwewwewd.
Every giant stadium is about the same.
A monument to the arrogance of some developer (et al), who then bilk the state/city for the cost.