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IMAGE OF THE WEEK

Some people want to build the item pictured here as a shrine to the Virgin Mary on Buffalo’s waterfront. This arch would become the tallest structure in Buffalo, dwarfing the current tallest building — the HSBC center — by more than one hundred feet.

Politics and the abortion debate aside (this arch is intended as a shrine for pro-life Catholics), on aesthetic grounds I oppose this thing. I can’t think of something more garish and dumb-looking than this item, looming over Lake Erie and the entire city. I don’t expect it to ever get built, but then, I don’t expect a lot of things.

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