Ala. Building Can't Shake Swastika Shape -TBO.com - News From AP
From the ground, the Wesley Acres Methodist retirement home looks like any other building. But fly over in an airplane, and the outline is unmistakable: It's one big swastika.
They even mentioned the other swastika building.
Take a piece of graph paper, and draw a box around a 7x7 space. Starting from the center square, go out in all four directions from it coloring in blocks. You get a cross. Now since you can't go outside the border, you want to expand the raw footage, what do you do?
Well, you could expand off each arm to make something like the German Iron Cross. Or the tetragrammaton cross symbol. OR you could then have each arm suddenly all turn the same way at a right angle along the perimeter. Either way you get a swastika. Either facing the same way as the Nazis or the other was as used in Asia.
Simple math and geometry, simple symmetry, simple regular efficient design. Why use a swastika shape and not the cross with cross bars? Simple. The swastika design encloses four quads for greenspace out on which windows have for a view. The other design ends up more like a Bronx apartment building with windows staring directly at each other.
Look at the pictures with both links and notice the space enclosed.
Another way is to do a square building with a cross section in the center, but that is just the swastika continued to enclose a space, but with a building that side if you need a portable lift to do repairs, how do you get it inside each quad WITHOUT lifting it over by crane OR taking apart and hand carrying the many pieces through the building to the inside quads and reassembling?
And fully enclosed quads have the problem of wind shear and containment. My high school had a fully enclosed area and when the prevailing winds whipped up, were near to rattling the windows out of their frames, and even light breezes outside the school became overpowering gusts within the enclosed area as wind whipped over the roof and down into the space.
We have more than enough problems in the Jewish world without this conspiratorial nonsense that makes us look like the fundamentalist Christian kooks who look for embarrassing secret dirt on the Vatican, or the idiots who try to find 666 everywhere.
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