Saturday 26 May 2007

7 wonders of the world

Well, the election of the new 7 wonders of the world has been going on for a while in http://www.new7wonders.com/ .The finalists have been selected. No offense, but for me even considering the statue of liberty or the cristo redentor or the Eiffel tower as wonders of the world is a bit excessive. Buildings that have were erected with much more limited technology and have lasted for hundreds, even more than a thousand years deserve this sort of award much more. Myself i have voted: Alhambra, Taj mahal (two of the most beautiful Islamic palaces ever built, one in mud the other in stone), Machu Pichu (unknown how was built at that height without use of the wheel), Timbuctu (even though i prefer the closely related Djenne Mosque, in Mali as well), Hagia Sophia (in one of my favourite cities of all times: Bizancio, Constantinopolis or Istambul), Chichen Itza (i had to chose a pyramid) and the Great wall (the only building that can be seen from space...in mud as well). I missed one in particular, snif, the Shibam skyscrapers in Yemen, made with mud and stone and 500 years standing there. Building regulations do not allow building these beauties nowadays...
http://www.urbanphoto.net/blog/2007/01/22/skyscrapers-in-the-desert/

The result of the award will be 07.07.07, and as the vote is either though internet and telephone, i am afraid that the greater access in developed countries some of my non-favourites will make it to the final 7 wonders, so u go and vote ur favourites!...thanks god theres more than 7 wonders in the world ;) Another of my candidates would have been the mud maze of Ait Benhadout, Morocco, but im too emotionally attached to Maghreb to be impartial in this one :P


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i agree i don't want the statue of liberty or eifel tower in there, but both probably will be.
the ones you suggest are similar to those i had in mind..

we'll see in a mont or so i guess