Thanks for your highly informative links...I had no idea how ancient and universally positive the symbol had been throughout history and that the Nazis subverted the visual expression of four L's.
That being said, it still seems a little odd that some architect would have proposed that layout to the government without thinking it would stir a little controversy. Hopefully someone closer to the real place can shed some light on the history of those buildings.
Does someone knows in what year is this building built? If it is post WWII than we have something very interesting going on here ?! And to spice it up this one is military building ?!
It's the barracks building for the Amphib base on North Island. It's been there a goodly number of years - I'm not sure how many.
From ground level, it's a nice building with 4 separate courtyards and a nice common area in the middle. Please note that it's not a single "swastika", but 4 separate buildings. It's no great conspiracy, guys... it's just 4 buildings.
Quote: Whoa, Amphib base? Like AMPHIBious? Is that island just off the coast there for testing/training purposes, then?
*loves amphibious vehicles*
Then you'll love Coronado. Over there, you have Naval Amphib base, NAS North Island, and SEAL training. Be sure you turn on the Keyhole Community BBS layer in the Layers section of GE. Then just zoom out a bit from that placemark. Have fun.
As a civil engineer I can guarantee to you that every building of this size has an architectural plan, which provides the projection of this building in the ground.
Yep, there are four separete buildings but, he (the architect) wanted to gain the effect of a Swastika when designing it. It was very clear in the plan...
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