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OMG! Amazon's new 'second HQ' tower across the river from DC looks just like the poop emoji
American Thinker ^ | 11 Feb, 2021 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 02/12/2021 6:44:32 AM PST by MtnClimber

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez drove Amazon's "second headquarters" out of New York City, the winner of the much publicized competition to host a multi-billion-dollar office project with many thousands of high-paying jobs was Arlington, Virginia, right across the river from Washington, D.C., where Amazon's founder owns the local fishwrap, the Washington Post.

In return, Amazon planned to build a showy complex of buildings on a riverside plot of land that should be visible from many of the hottest tourist sites in the nation's capital.

As usually is the case with expensive and showy real estate projects, glossy renderings of what the 2.8 million square feet of office towers (about the size of the Empire State Building) would look like were produced.

Architecture, like all the arts, is prone to fads and imitations. Wikipedia lists 32 "twisted" skyscrapers in the world today, every single one of them overseas.

SNIP

But there is one little problem for Bezos and his showplace structure — one that was noticed by a Reddit poster who calls himself "beepthepolak":

New Amazon HQ2 "Helix" Tower...can't unsee this now from r/nova

He's right: you can't unsee this once it is pointed out.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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To: setter

I hope they unionize. I look forward to that dumpster fire.


21 posted on 02/12/2021 7:06:53 AM PST by EEGator
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To: OHelix

Pooping is when my brain works best.
I keep poop...


22 posted on 02/12/2021 7:08:19 AM PST by EEGator
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To: MtnClimber

tower of Babel


23 posted on 02/12/2021 7:10:46 AM PST by BereanBrain
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24 posted on 02/12/2021 7:17:45 AM PST by Cooter (The media opts for narrative over news)
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To: Cooter

Absolutely hilarious!


25 posted on 02/12/2021 7:18:58 AM PST by cuban leaf (We killed our economy and damaged our culture. In 2021 we will pine for the salad days of 2020.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Underminer attacks!


26 posted on 02/12/2021 7:30:00 AM PST by PTBAA
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To: MtnClimber

The architect lacks originality. Looks like it was patterned after Thanksgiving chapel in Dallas https://thanksgiving.org/thanksgivingsquare/visit/ , which was, of course, patterned after the Biblical Tower of Babel.


27 posted on 02/12/2021 7:42:03 AM PST by PAR35
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To: MtnClimber

A few years back this ice cream swirl design outraged the muslins in the UK, saying it looked like the name of the arab god.


28 posted on 02/12/2021 7:44:49 AM PST by lurk ( )
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To: RoosterRedux
It's a left handed screw to boot.

29 posted on 02/12/2021 8:30:19 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: MtnClimber

If they choose to decorate it for Christmas, it’s going to look impressive. The rest of the year it’s gonna look like a Christmas tree that they forgot to put away


30 posted on 02/12/2021 8:36:53 AM PST by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Worker)
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To: MtnClimber

Bezos Screws America!


31 posted on 02/12/2021 8:56:01 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (American gun owners number more than the top 10 armies combined. What's Biden's enforcement plan?)
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To: MtnClimber
"The Poop Emoji Tower"?

Karma...

32 posted on 02/12/2021 8:56:49 AM PST by GOPJ (Biden voters: billionaires and idiots. Check your bank account to see which one you are.PookieToons)
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To: MtnClimber

Watch the TV show “How did they build that”

You’ll be asking yourself “WHY did they build that?”


33 posted on 02/12/2021 9:22:44 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: MtnClimber

You think that is bad? Why hasn’t anyone noticed what the arrow on the side of their delivery trucks and packages reminds you of!?

(It is too dark to even mention.)


34 posted on 02/12/2021 9:27:34 AM PST by Repent and Believe (...unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish. - Jesus (Luke 13:3))
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