In uk.legal Guy King wrote:
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The Leaning Tower of Pisa is not an example to follow.

It's lasted a good deal better than many modern houses.

Like most houses built a long time ago... if they are still standing it
is a good sign that they will continue standing for another hundred
years or so.

Modern constructions tend to be ephemeral. Witness 60s tower blocks
being knocked down these days whereas centuries old tenements in the Old
Town in Edinburgh are going strong.

More than anything as a complete waste of time and money was the
'millenium dome'... most past governments would have created something
lasting which would still be there in 400 years, not something based on
plastic which falls apart after a few years.

It sums up the current and recent governments. If a monument is going to
be built to mark the new millenium, why not build something that will
still be there for the next millenium! The Egyptians, Greeks and Romans
managed it. As did most of the cathedral builders in Mediaeval Europe
even if their constructions took many years or centuries to complete.

Who in a hundred years will even know about the 'Millenium Dome'
but will instead marvel at Koeln Cathedral and even climb the many
steps to hear the bells ring at first hand and then after their
ears have recovered wander into that marvellous bar Frueh am Dom
to enjoy several glasses of koelsch.

Axel