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One Ugly Church Bites the Dust (Christian Scientist in DC)
Real Clear Religion ^
| February 26, 2014
| Nicholas G. Hahn III
Posted on 02/26/2014 7:22:12 AM PST by C19fan
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I have driven past that church in DC and one cannot even tell it is a church. I would have no problem seeing all brutalist structures wiped out. They are inhuman and ulgy.
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posted on
02/26/2014 7:22:13 AM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Blech! Brutalist architecture is cold and imparts nothing artistic. The FBI and HHS buildings in DC are built in this style, and they’re just ugly.
As I recall, this style was also associated with fascism/socialism to display a sort of uniformity or modularity with no “flair” or personal distinctions of color.
Good riddance!
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posted on
02/26/2014 7:33:50 AM PST
by
rarestia
(It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
To: C19fan
I have had to spend time close to two over-bearing brutalist structures, the Regentsein Library at U of Chicago,
and the Life Sciences Center at Trinity College in Hartford, CT.
I had heard that some soap opera (General Hospital?) had used the Life Sciences Center as the representation of some evil pharmaceutical corporation.
And then there is the entire University of Rochester Campus, which lokks like a remake of "Menacing Monoliths".
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posted on
02/26/2014 7:34:06 AM PST
by
Dr. Sivana
("I'm a Contra" -- President Ronald Reagan)
Looks like buildings in East Berlin.
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posted on
02/26/2014 7:34:45 AM PST
by
HokieMom
(Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
To: C19fan
The 1970s were famous for some ugly hideous architecture, especially in the world of sports. I remember when the Phillies tore down that old but classical Connie Mack Stadium and replaced it with that hideous multipurpose stadium whose name escapes me before being mercifully dynamited to make room for the present classic ballpark.
They did the same thing to Forbes Field in Pittsburgh and replaced it with that hideous Three Rivers Stadium which still wasn't paid off when it was mercifully dynamited some 30 years later.
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posted on
02/26/2014 7:52:38 AM PST
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: C19fan
Brutalist architecture = Soviet architecture
To: C19fan
This leads to the obvious question of what lunacy possessed the earlier generation of Christian Scientists in DC that they picked a brutalist architect (or worse a brutalist design out of design competition) for their building.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:05:27 AM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: rarestia
! Brutalist architecture is cold and imparts nothing artistic. yes--very utilitarian... no beauty... which i despise...
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:05:31 AM PST
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: Dr. Sivana
To: Last Dakotan; rarestia
Actually, I know something about the brutalist movement because my closest colleague is married to a French architect (who hates brutalism which had a long and inglorious run in her homeland): it was indeed foisted on the world by leftists, not to glorify regimentation of socialism, fascism or communism, but in the spirit of Lenin’s “the worse the better” to make capitalism more oppressive by housing workers in oppressive buildings. They *knew* the stuff they were designing was ugly, indeed when they succeeded in their intent, inhumanly ugly, and wanted it that way.
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02/26/2014 8:11:27 AM PST
by
The_Reader_David
(And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
To: Last Dakotan
Brutalist architecture = Soviet architecture not only are the designs lacking in beauty, but i cannot recall ever seeing one structure with beautiful color... the structures are usually an ugly, gray concrete... the buildings always look dirty, dingy, polluted... old... depressing... maybe color blocking could have improved the look...
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:11:43 AM PST
by
latina4dubya
(when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
To: C19fan
On the link are 35 pics of ugly churches over the world. #11 is a round church in Norway...I swear the first thought that popped into my head was ...lord if the rings. Then there was another one with ugly projections sticking out at ya...looked like the church was giving you the finger. I haven’t had my morning coffee yet.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:14:01 AM PST
by
Conservative4Ever
(waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
To: C19fan
Here's the eyesore that Maloney bestowed on us:
To: C19fan
Why were the Christian Scientists so upset? My understanding is from their perspective there never was any church there to begin with.
To: C19fan
Hopefully, they can find a nicer place.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:25:29 AM PST
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: C19fan
Why demolish it? The government would fit right in in a building like that. I’m sure they’d love to buy it.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:26:23 AM PST
by
TBP
(Obama lies, Granny dies.)
To: C19fan
Are we sure the ugliness wasn’t just an error of the mind?
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:32:20 AM PST
by
william clark
(Ecclesiastes 10:2)
To: C19fan
One of the ugliest Brutalist buildings in DC, if not the world: Georgetown University Library.
Completely at odds with the rest of the campus, and a total waste of skyline over the Potomac.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:42:42 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
To: TBP
Why demolish it? The government would fit right in in a building like that. Im sure theyd love to buy it.Funny; the Wikipedia page on brutalist architecture shows two DC buildings as examples: the Health and Human Services Building (Kathleen Sebelius' stomping grounds) and the FBI Building.
Things that make you go hmm.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:44:38 AM PST
by
Albion Wilde
(The less a man knows, the more certain he is that he knows it all.)
To: C19fan
“...and have even suggested it has something to do with their dwindling numbers.”
Maybe the “automatic handwriting” for this cult is on the wall.
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posted on
02/26/2014 8:48:12 AM PST
by
fungoking
(Tis a pleasure to live in the Ozarks)
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