The Cathedral of the Resurrection in Evry (France)

[Marcus Marulus]

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[Pro Hibernia]

Me thinks that looks horrible. I like the more gothic feel.

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Leipreachán

Me thinks that looks horrible. I like the more gothic feel.

Horrible is too mild a word. Many churches look like this nowadays, unfortunately.

[Pirate]

Bah... I hope they'll learn something from this and never try to build something like that again.

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by M.R.

Bah... But they can still transform it into some kind of a mega-store.

We are ushering in an age of anti-aesthetics obviously. And the trend is not recent. We have this phenomenon called "modern architecture". Never mind that in its basisc trends it is almost eighty years old, but its proponents still claim it to be "modern".

[Gavril]

What a disgrace.

[Strengthandhonour]

Disgusting.
It looks like that church was designed after the churches in the United States(that look awful)

[svin]

It looks like a water tower to me.

[Milesian]

What strikes me is that it could be anything. You don’t look at it and think – that is a Church.
I look and it and think it’s an office block. I suppose the idea is that eventually they can convert it into a block of apartments or offices or whatever once they drive enough of the faithful away with their Modernist claptrap that they no longer require a church anymore (or the local populace becomes majority Muslim).

[Errigal]

Originally Posted by Marulus

We are ushing in an age of anti-aesthetics obviously. And the trend is not recent. We have this phenomenon called "modern architecture". Never mind that in its basisc trends it is almost eighty years old, but its proponents still claim it to be "modern".

There is some very good looking modern buildings but this thing in Evry isn't one of them. It looks very sinister from the front (like the head of a man-eating giant) and very ordinary from behind (like a high school in southern California). The good news is that it could easily be deconsecrated and turned into something else.

[Milesian]

Originally Posted by Marulus

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On the subject of the interior, it looks like the multifaith room found in the UN building.
Worryingly for a Catholic church, it has no altar (morea bare podium with a Novus Ordo table), and even the crucifix hanging up isn't a crucifix.

Bulldoze it and try again.
1/10 for effort. Must do better.

[Marcus Marulus]

Originally Posted by Milesian

On the subject of the interior, it looks like the multifaith room found in the UN building.
Worryingly for a Catholic church, it has no altar (morea bare podium with a Novus Ordo table), and even the crucifix hanging up isn't a crucifix.

Bulldoze it and try again.
1/10 for effort. Must do better.

I concur with Strengthandhonour: it reminds me all too much of some American "evangelical" churches.

An Italian Catholic writer (Raffaele Giovanelli) claims that we are living in an iconoclastic age, without being aware of that.

La Chiesa giubilare a Roma

The text is - unfortunately - only in Italian, but pictures speak more than words:

[Errigal]

I think the worst architectural crime is committed when an older building has some ugly glass and steel junk added to it. This was done by Daniel Libeskind in Toronto:



This is the private home of the architect Frank Gehry. It looks like a police station in the north of Ireland in back before the ceasefire.



Frank Gehry and the Simpsons : mirage.studio.7

[Milesian]

Originally Posted by Errigal

I think the worst architectural crime is committed when an older building has some ugly glass and steel junk added to it. This was done by Daniel Libeskind in Toronto:

This is just ghastly. It looks like a skyscraper has collapsed on top of a church. What kind of name is Daniel Libeskind anyway?.......ok, I won't even go there

[Savorgnan]

Originally Posted by Marulus

Horrible is too mild a word. Many churches look like this nowadays, unfortunately.

I guess you can say that again, my friend! Look at what they've done to my Friulian village after the 1976 earthquake(s)!

Before





After




Criminals! I'm glad I wasn't baptized in that.