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From the NY Times:
Before the usual suspects show up and go nuts...I want to say I think this is a very good thing. Capitalism has a way of modernizing a society.
Critics Notebook
New Look for Mecca: Gargantuan and Gaudy
By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: December 29, 2010
JIDDA, Saudi Arabia It is an architectural absurdity. Just south of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the Muslim worlds holiest site, a kitsch rendition of Londons Big Ben is nearing completion. Called the Royal Mecca Clock Tower, it will be one of the tallest buildings in the world, the centerpiece of a complex that is housing a gargantuan shopping mall, an 800-room hotel and a prayer hall for several thousand people. Its muscular form, an unabashed knockoff of the original, blown up to a grotesque scale, will be decorated with Arabic inscriptions and topped by a crescent-shape spire in what feels like a cynical nod to Islams architectural past. To make room for it, the Saudi government bulldozed an 18th-century Ottoman fortress and the hill it stood on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/30/arts/design/30mecca.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Mecca&st=cse
Before the usual suspects show up and go nuts...I want to say I think this is a very good thing. Capitalism has a way of modernizing a society.