How Mao Ended up in Tiananmen Square…Looking Like a Lincoln Memorial
Posted: June 24th, 2012 | 7 Comments »A small article popped up in the China Daily recently about Xu Yinpei the architect behind Mao’s Mausoleum in Tiananmen Square. Of course as any fool can see they basically copied the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC; Xu says not of course but anyone with eyes!! – apparently the State Council told Xu “the memorial should be solemn, aesthetically pleasing and blend in traditional Chinese elements but shouldn’t look like imperial emperors’ tombs,”. In perhaps the funniest quote of the year so far Xu, who did visit Washington and saw the Lincoln Memorial says, “When I saw the building (the Lincoln Memorial), I said to myself: ‘What a coincidence!'”. Yea sure Architect Xu – we believe you. Also, rather amazingly, Xu claims that “More than 700,000 laborers” worked on the Mausoleum, which even for The Great Helmsman’s final resting place seems a rather excessive amount of construction guys!! Anyway here’s the article.
Mao’s Mausoleum in Tiananmen Square
The Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC
or maybe it’s the other way round…what a coincidence!!
They definitely look very much the same but I’m afraid both the pictures are of Lincoln Memorial!
nice try – but I’m afraid the second picture is missing a rather vital element – Mr Lincoln!!
Um, while the Lincoln memorial is shanzhai of a Greek temple, seems you can’t tell the differernce between a Chinese and greek columns.
The straight column with pannel in between is distinctively Chinese:
http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/189427/189427,1215529473,2/stock-photo-chinese-style-architecture-14810917.jpg
Sticking upturned corners on a roof does not automatically make it Chinese.
I hope some architect in China deeply considers what a Chinese building should look like, because all the modern architecture I’ve seen in China looks like Europe or the US.
There is nothing distinctly Chinese about it.
from an architect stand point it is a ugly building but I don’t see how that a copy. The shape is the same as any building.
you really don’t see that as a copy – honestly??
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to find out where u got this from. cheers