WI: A Pyramid-building fad?

Giant stone things are very expensive. Hard for it to be a fad when only the very very richest could afford anything nearing the scale of Egypt's pyramids.
 
I recall there was a Japanese construction company that tried to build a pyramid right next to the ones in Giza but it was ugly and the Egyptian authorities ordered them to take it down after only about halfway thru the build.
 
Oops, that's from another post I made on another thread that takes place in the 1970's. It was supposed to read "a bit of Egyptian-mania in the late 1970's". My mistake, went back and fixed it.

Thanks. But it was cool to consider the potential of "G. Gordon Liddy" to mean something besides just the name of the guy himself.

"Ever since his song made the billboard charts, there's been a real G. Gordon Liddy around that singer's career."
 
I recall there was a Japanese construction company that tried to build a pyramid right next to the ones in Giza but it was ugly and the Egyptian authorities ordered them to take it down after only about halfway thru the build.

Even if the extra pyramid was gonna be beautiful, I could still see some pretty strong objections to building it.
 
What about an Egypt where Pharaonism becomes the dominant nationalist ideology? Could such a nationalist Egypt also be into building pyramids?
 
What about an Egypt where Pharaonism becomes the dominant nationalist ideology? Could such a nationalist Egypt also be into building pyramids?

I would imagine, assuming that this hypothetical neo-pharaonism places the same importance on the Pyramids as the rest of us do.

I once read on some paranoid, right-wing Catholic website that the Masonic influence in Mexican nationalism(which is a thing) inspired them to glorify the pre-Catholic pyramids in that country.
 
Even if the extra pyramid was gonna be beautiful, I could still see some pretty strong objections to building it.
The Egyptian Gov.did give them permission but IIRC there were protest even before building began, it wasn't till they were almost halfway done and the Gov. saw what an eyesore it was going to be that they pulled the permits.
 
the Dutch futurologist Robbert and Rudolf Das proposed pyramid shaped apartment buildings
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It's not often remembered that the various ministries in Oceania are described as being housed in pyramids, though a few early cover illustrations do make that obvious.

(By the way, those would have to be the sluttiest renditions of the Anti-Sex League uniform ever; score one for marketing over accuracy.)
 
Pyramids have sadly a horrible area to volume ratio, the ground in cities costs a lot of money and so you want to get the most out of the building, making a block instead of a pyramid gives you 2x the room inside the building to rent out.

Also Vegas.
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It took me a good second to realize that that wasn't a scene from Evangelion...
 
There was a tendency in Soviet constructivism to undergo trough an "internationalist" architecture, claiming getting inspiration from all cultures, western as non-western.
I don't think it would be too wild to see the survival of this style, partially or not, after the 20's giving the right changes, and seeing it adopting pyramidal forms (probably mixing Egyptians with Mesoamericans, because) for several constructions.
 
What if Egypt ends up with a nationalist dictatorship which uses Pharaonism as it's national ideology. The Arab states were pretty unstable right after independence and while Pharaonism seems to have faded by then if they right guy gets into power it could be establish as the national ideology. Especially if the ruling strongman has reason to distance Egypt from the Arab league. This leads to a Neo-Egyptian revival and the goverment encourages and builds many buildings taking their inspiration from ancient Egyptian architecture. For a special bonus perhaps our new dictator creates a Pharoanic personality cult along the lines of Stalin or North Korea and builds a new pyramid larger than the great pyramid at Giza for himself to be buried in.
 
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