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| #1 Post by mrmeval, on Sat May 8 2010 8:42 PM |
| Like most fArt installations it serves zero useful purpose and soaks up money better spent on feeding people, providing medicine, defleaing poodles or other worthwhile efforts. |
| #2 Post by Robin, on Sun May 9 2010 6:44 AM |
| Looks very nice. Always love these kind of concepts, but the usefullness is indeed always a bit harder to find. Ofcourse these kind of thinks bring a lot of fund and work, and its good for the Green sector. But still.. |
| #3 Post by Dan, on Sun May 9 2010 9:38 AM |
| Rio is a city that gets most of its money trough tourism... In a few years, tourism money generated by that structure would pay its initial costs, sustain its maintenance and of course, in a perfect world, go to medicine/feeding people, etc... but we all know that wont happen... |
| #4 Post by John, on Sun May 9 2010 2:23 PM |
| This should bring money, jobs and energy to Rio which should raise the tide to lift all boats. Plus, this is fucking awesome! |
| #5 Post by Bill, on Sun May 9 2010 2:25 PM |
| Rio may be becoming this hemisphere's Dubai. Sweet! |
| #6 Post by Vagner, on Sun May 9 2010 6:2 PM |
| Ridiculous. Rio does NOT need a contraption to make it beautiful or interesting. Please make jokes, or ridiculous ideas with your landscape. RAFFA, don't try to screw that awesome view. It makes me laugh -- or maybe dread. What it would bring to the citzens? Please, RAFFA, why don't you try to "challenge minds" with a wreck like that in front of YOURS Mont Blanc? I think your swiss friends would "love" its idea. |
| #7 Post by Dave, on Sun May 9 2010 6:24 PM |
| @ Vagner :You can't read properly right? You don't know anything about architecture. You need to see farther than your nose. |
| #8 Post by Vagner, on Sun May 9 2010 7:10 PM |
| @ Dave, instead of the comment above, what's your opinion about the project? I think that's the question.. I'm saying it's not nice to have the idea of building some (millionare) construction in the middle of a landscape. Do it where you have nothing to wonder. This would bring something extra, to make a place more interesting or beautiful. The concept of URBAN waterfall would be highlighted if they put it into Times Square. In time, I exchanged a couple of mails with Rafaa and they promptly told me it's completly conceptual, there are no intention of building it. PS: Of course, I failed about the supposed swiss Mont Blanc's view. |
| #9 Post by piet, on Mon May 10 2010 3:30 PM |
| looks FANTASTIC |
| #10 Post by Dave, on Wed May 12 2010 10:35 PM |
| @Vagner: I'm not really a fan of it. A little too much (Dubai style) But as you mentionned it, Rafaa could make something interesting of this concept. Sorry I just don't like when people only point out the bad aspects of a project. Then a urban waterfall this high in Time Squares? No way ;) |
| #11 Post by Jared, on Wed May 12 2010 10:40 PM |
| Lol people saying it's a useless money soaker that could be spent on the poor... Sure it's art and therefore useless to anyone, but it's also testament to current human achievement. No one complains about the Statue of Liberty, or the Eiffel Tower, or the reforming of the Porcelain Tower. What happened to marveling at the human capabilities of the modern world? If this is made, it will become one of the great 7 wonders of modern world civil engineering. In the future, we can say, "Hey, those 21st century people were doing alright. Now let's teleport to Niagara to see a natural one." And f**k the poor! Personally, I'm sick of giving money to the poor. Ever since I was BORN and well beyond that we've been giving money to the poor and we have nothing to show for it. Absolutely nothing—in fact it's worse and god knows how many hundreds of billions we've sunk. Giving a dollar a day doesn't fix the economy of several entire nations, eradicate corruption, educate a billion people to even a grade one standard, cure diseases, form governments, and establish footholds among second-world nations. Yes, that sounds inhumane, but it's honestly quite the opposite. We're literally just dragging them along in the mud while we try to advance with their never-ending burden slowing all of humanity down. Giving a dollar a day to technology and advancing humans for the greater good would have seen us probably coming up with stuff that eradicates poverty by now, the cure for AIDS or even cancer, definitely improvements in genetic crops for 3rd-world nations. Need I mention Norman Borlaug as testament to this? We cut off destroyed limbs to survive, not nurse them with band-aids because we feel sorry for ourselves. Building this monument would mean a lot to many people and probably start a new phase of "being green" (rofl), which is much better in the long-run than postponing a person's inevitable death by one week. With this sort of thinking, in the future there won't be as many people starving and dying and that's fact. Sometimes capitalist thinking is a good thing too. |
