What is most shocking is that they appear to not have an architecture planning and approval board. That is indeed a shocking and amateur approach to building. They are all cookie cutter buildings and are atrocious.
And the sheeple....with their eyes glazed over do not know the difference.
The "faithful" will very likely see this as being superior to the Italian works...."speshul" by its very ugliness, not copies of Christian buildings. "Set apart"...a good old mormon term. I just wonder what the Italian response will be to the statue of mormoni on the top.
I dunno how familiar these folks are with building in Rome and I didn’t read the article closely, but generally speaking a large construction project in Rome is a nightmare.
You can’t dig three feet without hitting something archaeologically significant, at which point all the gears grind to a halt while the government decides what to do about it.