Military Intelligence
by Matt on Sep.28, 2007, under Cool Links, Hero of the Day, Insanity, Interesting, Politics
Rusty, who doesn’t actually use his own blog because he is a lazy slacker, sent me this link last night.
Apparently,
- The architect never noticed that he had just designed an enormous swastika-shaped building for the U.S. Navy.
- The U.S. Navy never noticed, until it was too late, that their architect had designed an enormous swastika-shaped building for them.
- People on the ground were oblivious to the fact that the building was shaped like a swastika. (I, for one, notice the shape of buildings?)
- There aren’t, say, fire exit plans posted everywhere in the building depicting the building as an enormous brick swastika.
That said, Hitler did forever destroy our ability to use what’s probably a good layout for an office complex.
1 comment for this entry:
September 28th, 2007 on 10:05 am
Actually the article says the Navy noticed just after groundbreaking 40 years ago. They just decided not to bother changing it because who would see it from the air. And frankly I think people make too much of it.
Also take a look at this link (http://virtualearth.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2BBC66E99FDCDB98!9205.entry) to see the two buildings in the shape of bombers on their way to bomb the building.