How do we go back to being a society that builds things like this?
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Low time-preference architecture 💜
The people here indicate the unbelievable scale of St. Peter's.
Michelangelo's breathtaking dome is 447 feet tall - the letters around the base are themselves 2 meters tall, and read: "Thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven."
It was the commission to crown Michelangelo's astonishing life and career. He was asked at the age of 71 to take over as chief architect of the project, and guide the near-impossible task of raising a dome the size of Rome's Pantheon atop the mighty church.
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