Via Doublethink, why do the Chinese call this ultramodernist building "Big Underpants" -- and why does that make the state so angry? The hilarious graphic after the jump shows that it could be worse.
Big Underpants over Beijing
Thursday December 4, 2008
Categories: Architecture, China
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Hey, at least their architects are allowed to be creative, and not just build big square boxes like we always get.
This sculpture is on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, where I went to graduate school (at least, the first time I was in graduate school ...). Any, it's called "The Covenant", and supposely symbolizes Abraham sacrificing Isaac. For reasons that will be obviously when you look at it, the students at Penn call it "Dueling Tampons".
(Since it doesn't want to let me paste a picture into my post here, just Google "Penn Covenant Sculpture".)
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