Aciu, Mantai, for the great pix of Gedimino prospektas up there!
The St. George, quite close to my hotel when I visited Vilnius in the summer of 2004, was still undergoing reconstruction. It looks absolutely spectacular!
Actually, I was talking about the Ministry of economy building - the '70s highriser "sticking out" further down the avenue. IMO it's a lot more horrible even than Novotel
/ @Vaidas: sorry, I misunderstood. Now that you've written it in English I see that you say something about the ministerijos. It's just that the was right next to the word Novotel.
And of course that Ministry building is an abomination and and a disgrace. I hope it'll be gone some day soon.
/ @Vaidas: sorry, I misunderstood. Now that you've written it in English I see that you say something about the ministerijos. It's just that the was right next to the word Novotel.
And of course that Ministry building is an abomination and and a disgrace. I hope it'll be gone some day soon.
Oh, common, its not so bad. There are worse buildings Gedimino prospekte. Even this Vilniaus Vartai building, if looking from Independence square, seems very similar.
It may well be true that there are even worse buildings than that dreary Ministry box lining Vilnius' wonderful pedestrian street, Broken Cloud, but it makes me sad to see them.
Actually there are no uglier buildings in Gediminas avenue than that ministry building. BrokenCloud mentioned that Vilniaus vartai is uglier. "Vilniaus vartai" - Vilnius gates project. From all comments of BrokenCloud it seems that he hates everything what is new - and he prefers everything what is old, no matter how ugly it is.
Thanks for the explanation, Eddai! As you know, I have no idea what people are *saying* here ... I can only react to photos and take a wild guess every once in a while, which usually backfires as it did there with my comment to Vaidas about the Notovel.
I freely admit -- and you probably know this, too -- that I am a great admirer of [most] old buildings. However, I am at least making an *effort* to find positive things in the more recent buildings. (Now where's that angel smilie?)
Thanks for the explanation, Eddai! As you know, I have no idea what people are *saying* here ... I can only react to photos and take a wild guess every once in a while, which usually backfires as it did there with my comment to Vaidas about the Notovel.
I freely admit -- and you probably know this, too -- that I am a great admirer of [most] old buildings.
Well, about Novotel - you can always react negative towards that building when there is word "Novotel" mentioned. No matter what the real context is all about. It's never enough of all these bashings when we talk about that building.
About old buildings - commieblocks are also old, that's what I was talking about: BrokenCloud prefers commieblock of ministry over Vilnius gates because it is old and Vilnius gates is new. I don't agree with that at all.
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