Tom....as always I welcome your dissenting opinion and my comment was more than tongue in cheek as I to enjoy and find the early attemps facinating ....I only wish there was one left intact today........and, having just built a monumental, clearly geometric, manmade earthform of 200,000 cu yds, I view tie ins with more than a passing interest.
When some stand atop the structure , I am commonly asked 'where did you truck in all this dirt from?'.....which pleases me because it wasn't anything more than a balanced cut and fill, a pushup in essence , albiet quite large.
....it works because it ties in with its surrounds naturally and designed in the same manner as other earthwork structures from an earlier age ....and built only after I did considerable study and research about earthwork fortifications in north america and europe.....its shape patterned after the Castilo de San Marcos in St. Augustine, which, although constructed of soft coquina stone, had the same ability to absorb projectiles in its mass... and it might surprise you to know the new version is a larger variant of that periods style...almost 900 ft diagonally across the points....and I could go on, but lets get back to discussing the finer points of GCArch
