I am really curious what the strategy was

Even Mesoamerica had some cool shit. The Aztecs build their capital city in the middle of a fucking lake and it was comparable to London at the time.

Idk anything that results in this

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Mesoamerica also built pyramids n' shit; They were pretty baller.

Even skyscrapers are just... ugh.

Cathedrals are magnificent.

That's a penis

Tang be like

@ryvergate I'd say probably post-industrialisation.

Mesoamerican pyramids > Egyptian pyramids

The old town of Prague.

@Zephyr Blackfish Neo gothic and neo classicism are both post industrialisation

and they are both magnificent

Egyptians put their sacrifices under the pyramids; Mesoamericans did their sacrificing on top of them, so the gods could see the entrails better.

Get rid of the gay neo

mesoamerican pyramids are less sheer

nd not pointy

The buildings actually look... decorated.

@Zephyr Blackfish fu

they just ziggurats

Btfo'd

Okay when I say modern I mean modern invented styles. Neoclassical is a throwback to an earlier era.

@fvriovs it was actually designed to give a building a natural (convection driven) ventilation, and only then put into a form, which turned out to be a cucumber

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How the fuck?

>95% casualties

Best Korea

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/645726001866997760/655861556646641695/459daac5acb286ea9a51d69f54a409bdc8b93df87bc48d33e4e3dfe6ead61182_1.gif

How do you manage that?

As long as the building doesn't fall down, form is good.

I think one of the issues is haste.

The most magnificent buildings ever made took decades to build to completion.

Perhaps even longer than a lifetime.

They broke a dam and flooded a river while the Chinese were trying to cross it, then charged the disorientated survivors with cavalry and slaughtered them.

But no, financial wants this done in 3 years.

So get to it.

"Eulji Mundeok had cut off the flow of water with a dam in advance, and when the Sui troops reached the river, the water level was shallow. When the unsuspecting Sui troops were halfway across the river, Eulji Mundeok opened the dam, causing the onslaught of water to drown thousands of enemy soldiers. The Goguryeo cavalry then charged the remaining Sui forces, inflicting enormous casualties."

Jesus