Comments by "Gary Jackson" (@garyjackson3531) on "How Germany’s Most Beautiful City Was Destroyed… and Rebuilt" video.

  1. ​@holger_p Tell that to the Romans. Much of their architecture was a cheap copy of ancient Greece. Most of the beloved statues you see in Roman museums are merely copies of Greek originals. What is being presented in Dresden isn't direct copies of pre-war buildings, but rather modern interpretations. People complain the new buildings are modern inside rather than true to the original. I certainly hope so! Indoor plumbing wasn't always an original feature in those buildings! Neither was electricity. All sorts compromises had to be made to retrofit what we, today, consider bare minimal necessities of life. Had WWII never happened, many of those buildings that were destroyed would have been gutted, leaving only the outer shell, and the insides completely rebuilt and reinterpreted. The most famous building in the United States is our White House. When the British invaded the United States in 1812, and tried to retake the country, they set fire to the mansion. Gutting it. It was rebuilt with a much grander vision. That lasted until just after WWII. In the more than 100 years after the British invasion, the building was in sorry shape. President Truman's daughter had a grand piano, which fell through the floor! The Truman family was moved out and the building gutted. Other than the outer shell, NOTHING inside the White House is "old." So what!
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