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Neshanic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-11-08 12:04 PM
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This is why they hate us. We have no taste. Germans subjected to ugly Embassy
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,555434,00.html

Ugh!
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Ichingcarpenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-11-08 12:16 PM
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1. Look at this ugly US embassy just built in Ottawa


The Times has more on the embassy in Berlin and the verdict is it looks like
it was built for Baghdad



http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/architecture_and_design/article4016465.ece
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rumpel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-11-08 04:15 PM
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2. Blücherpalais before 1936...
I had to look for a before photo...

US embassy then



after



FYI: The source page investigates the US embassy and the physically connected Goebbels Propaganda Ministry, and other underground tunnels and bunkers in the area.

http://www.artikel20grundgesetz.de/
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-11-08 04:17 PM
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3. It looks like a Stalin inspired prison..or insane asylum. Which seems apt.
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Fleshdancer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-11-08 04:19 PM
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4. I usually roll my eyes at headlines like this, but....
Wow. That really is ugly. Sorry Berlin. :(
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