Oops! The Navy’s Coronado amphibious base and barracks, built in the 1960s, actually look like a giant swastika from the sky – as recently discovered by Google Earth.
Now, the US Navy is going to spend as much as $600,000 on landscaping and architectural modification to hide the shape.
Link – via FP Passport, Thanks Jennifer and esa!
Previously on Neatorama: "I am Not a Nazi" Swastika
Ali S.
Oh dear me! How can anyone get away with creating that didn’t someone realize the shape of it during the sketch-ups and planning stages?
Jimmy
People still believe its tainted after it was used as a nazi symbol, shame really.
david
yeah i may be making myself sound ignorant but wasnt it an African symbol for luck or something?
A
I would have never known if this wasn’t posted. Would you?
I think they’ll be fine saving the landscaping money and buying things they need.
redphone
This is excessively old news. Is the Navy really going to actually do something, or is that rumor?
kid icarus
the nazi swatsika is on a tilt, the buddhist swastika lies flat. it’s sad that a lot of people will never know this was/is a truly peaceful symbol from before 1000BC, all because of an moustache wearing maniac’s dellusion.
Vonskippy
For way less then $600K they could hang triangle shaped “sails” from each leg and it’d look like a giant pin-wheel.
Surely that couldn’t get anyone’s panties in a bunch.
Zakk Underhill
The swastika was used by many different cultures and in many different styles, you can’t say it means something different just by tilting it. There’s a lot more to it than that. As for this building I say leave it the way it is.
LOLWTF
JEW KILLERS. not. america is the biggest jew lover so why would anyone get pissed….
Lasse
After fleeing Germany after the war, Hitler became a succesfull american architect in the 60´s.
By the way, an amphibious base? Where is the water?
Powell
That 600K could be put to better way better use. Political correctness run amuk.
TheSquid
someone over at boing boing pointed out that the two adjacent buildings look like bombers heading towards the swastika. As if it was a giant 8 bit mural.
Snuskie
the dorms at UCSB, also built in the 60s on, have a similar look, but not nearly to the same extent.
tuckmics
People are making a big deal about the $600K but the fact is that they are doing various upgrades to the building as part of regular maintenance/modernization and as a part of the project, they are doing some cosmetic/landscaping changes to disguise the shape. The navy is not modifying the shape of the building or spending $600K on changing the shape to appease anyone. Folks need to get all the info before passing judgement.
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