<![CDATA[Eiffel’s ironwork.]]>Eiffel’s ironwork.

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/1088c375-e339-4fd9-8ba9-30734715ca79/eiffel-s-ironwork.RSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 22:33:01 GMTTue, 05 May 2026 15:25:13 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Eiffel’s ironwork. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:48:08 GMT]]>@Trilobyter at least those are reasonable criticism lol art is art and won't please many.

More impressed that something intended to be temporary was built so well it's lasted this long (even with expected maintenance)

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/pixelpusher220/statuses/116522751651473427https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/pixelpusher220/statuses/116522751651473427Tue, 05 May 2026 15:48:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Eiffel’s ironwork. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:44:05 GMT]]>@pixelpusher220 @Trilobyter

Remember that old snark from Jonathan Swift, about the "confederacy of dunces" ? The greatness of the idea is measured in the idiocy of its enemies

Eiffel had serious enemies.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/tuban_muzuru/statuses/116522735723146793https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/tuban_muzuru/statuses/116522735723146793Tue, 05 May 2026 15:44:05 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Eiffel’s ironwork. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:41:17 GMT]]>@pixelpusher220 though there was plenty of opposition when it was being built, critics called it a threat to French art and history, with comments like a "truly tragic street lamp", a "mast of iron gymnasium apparatus", and an "odious column of bolted metal".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/Trilobyter/statuses/116522724730563928https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.world/users/Trilobyter/statuses/116522724730563928Tue, 05 May 2026 15:41:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Eiffel’s ironwork. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:27:08 GMT]]>@Trilobyter It's such a travesty that we've been so brainwashed into 'nothing that isnt profit!' that I look at the iron twirls and think 'no way that would be approved today'

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/pixelpusher220/statuses/116522669091236492https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://dmv.community/users/pixelpusher220/statuses/116522669091236492Tue, 05 May 2026 15:27:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Eiffel’s ironwork. on Tue, 05 May 2026 15:26:07 GMT]]>@Trilobyter

cool photo

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/the5thColumnist/statuses/116522665057450111https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ottawa.place/users/the5thColumnist/statuses/116522665057450111Tue, 05 May 2026 15:26:07 GMT