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hotrod architecture
2005.05.24 09:02
In a real hot rod (i.e., a car), what performance is specifically increased? I'm assuming that for sure horsepower is increased, but what else (if anything) specifically? I'm asking because I think a hot rod car's performance can be pointed to specifically as opposed to being general and saying "overall performance." I'm also asking because I don't think a building's "overall" performance must be increased, rather a specific, usually interior performance aspect of a building must be increased or "extremely madeover."
Hey abracadabra, nice magic trick, pulling Hot Rod Architecture out of Holy Wisdom in the heart of Constantinople. Constantine (who died 22 May 337--he fell sick in Constantinople and started taking thermal baths there, then went to Helenopolis where the thermal baths of the region are the best, but nonetheless ultimately died in a villa just outside Nicomedia, today's Izmit) is proud of you. He was buried at Constantinople in the Church of the Apostles, which I think is today a military museum--a rest in peace makeover, I suppose.
Constantinople as extreme, extreme makeover of Roman Empire capital, and then Istanbul as extreme makeover of Constantinople?
Is there such a thing as hot rodding a hot rod? That is, will Hagia Sophia ever be a Christian church again?
[The tide goes both ways, doesn't it?]
Anyway, I'm staying tuned for Extreme Makeover: Vatican III Edition.
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