‘Monstrosity’: R1bn V&A Waterfront hotel sparks backlash

Meanwhile, in China

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ToxicBunny said:
He has outsourced the thinking more and more to AI these days.
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Eish, it can be addictive hey. I extensively used chatGPT last week and created simple sentences for 1000 most common words, then verbs, adjectives and then all 3 sentences etc. For Afrikaans & German. Found it to be quite useful. Any AI to be used with caution because some of the sentence construction was tiny bit off at times.
 
www.toureiffel.paris

When the Eiffel Tower was a subject of controversy

Before it was built and for the first 20 years of its existence, the Eiffel Tower was a topic of much debate!
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On February 14, 1887, the famous “Protest against the Tower of Monsieur Eiffel” was published in Le Temps newspaper, calling on the person responsible for works for the Exhibition to put a stop to it. The letter was signed by major names in the artistic and literary world: composer Charles Gounod, writers Guy de Maupassant and Alexandre Dumas (son), and poet François Coppée, as well as classical architects like Charles Garnier, who designed the Opéra Garnier.
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“We come, we writers, painters, sculptors, architects, lovers of the beauty of Paris which was until now intact, to protest with all our strength and all our indignation, in the name of the underestimated taste of the French, in the name of French art and history under threat, against the erection in the very heart of our capital, of the useless and monstrous Eiffel Tower which popular ill-feeling, so often an arbiter of good sense and justice, has already christened the Tower of Babel.”
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dualmeister said:
I've been watching them build this for while now and was thinking WTF.

As someone said it looks like a gulag :X3:
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Ya, looks very brutalist... which a lot of the 70's area buildings have. So kind of fits in with many of the buildings that are currently set to be demolished.

Its not a monstrosity but they certainly could have made it look better for R1 bil.
 
Nerfherder said:
There is an entire economy built around dumbasses that only stay at the waterfront.
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So, first time I went to CT, V & A area was novelty to me. Kind of central to ferries, museum, dining places and not too far from Table mountain really. It could cater to my type of first time visitors ?

Novelty wore off later of course. I stay as away from that place now. Cost is main factor of course.
 
Sideshow Bob said:
So, first time I went to CT, V & A area was novelty to me. Kind of central to ferries, museum, dining places and not too far from Table mountain really. It could cater to my type of first time visitors ?

Novelty wore off later of course. I stay as away from that place now. Cost is main factor of course.
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That's true for most of us semigrants and SA visitors. Its sad though that for many people their only experience of SA and even Africa is not leaving the Harbour. There are people who are here for a week and don't even go up table mountain.
 
dualmeister said:
Cape Town residents have expressed their disapproval of the development, particularly the design, of a new R1 billion hotel at the V&A Waterfront.

Late last year, hospitality conglomerate Marriott International and the V&A Waterfront announced plans to build an ultra-luxury R1 billion hotel, known as the Cape Town EDITION, the first of its kind on the African continent.

It forms part of the Quay 7 development, on the eastern side of the V&A Waterfront, and is part of the much larger expansion of the Waterfront and Granger Bay area.

It is not to be confused with the R1 billion refurbishment at the Table Bay Hotel, also at the Waterfront, which has recently reopened.

According to Time Out, the EDITION Hotel will feature

  • 142 hotel rooms and suites
  • 6 serviced private residences
  • A rooftop bar and pool
  • A luxury spa
  • Destination restaurants and dining
  • High-end event and lifestyle spaces
  • Extensive views towards the harbour, ocean and Table Mountain
It is expected to open in October 2026.

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WOW! Imagine that was Timber
 
Nerfherder said:
That's true for most of us semigrants and SA visitors. Its sad though that for many people their only experience of SA and even Africa is not leaving the Harbour. There are people who are here for a week and don't even go up table mountain.
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Crazy. I never miss going to Table mountain when in CT, unless weather prohibits. Happened once I think.
 
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