[NYer]

What happened to the previous cathedral?

[sphinx]

But, but ... an architect got to make his mark. What else counts?

Btw, did you notice the Eye of Sauron in the top view?

[Biggirl]

Looks like a new office building, not a church building.

[maryz]

'Is it a dentist's office?' 'Is it a museum?' 'Is it a hospital?'

Now those are just silly -- obviously, it's an insurance company building . . . at least that's what insurance co. buildings look like around here! ;-)

[B-Chan]

It looks like the Whataburger Of The Future.

[Wacka]

I’ve driven by it. It’s bigger than it looks. Also the picture of Christ behind the altar was said to look 3 dimensional when the light shines through the windows. That photo he linked to must have been when the sun is behind the nearby buildings.

We are in quake territory and very few churches look like the old cathedrals here. The ones built in that way didn’t last through the previous quakes. Almost all the Spanish Missions in CA are not the originals. The one is San Juan Batista (seen in the movie Vertigo) was built about 30 feet from the San Andras.

[Alex Murphy]

He received his Masters degree from the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture, one of the best (if not only) classical schools of (Church) Architecture in the country.

I wouldn't brag about my Catholic credentials from Notre Dame - not today, anyway...
Notre Dame Tenured Theologian McBrien Blasts Bishops

[RedRedRose]

Wow. That is weak.

Jesus doesn’t want to go in there. He thinks it’s ugly.

Are those brown things shutters or are there vertical pews of some kind?

The round alter looks like it needs a pole and some go-go dancers.

Sorry. But, eww.

[AnnaZ]

Hate to say it... but in that second pic it kinda looks like a vagina.

: \

[PAR35]

A new ‘ugly cathedral’ thread.

[RichInOC]

Well, it’s less ugly than Our Lady of the Angels, I’ll give it that.

[Revolting cat!]

The problem may be that there is no modern church architecture. All new Catholic churches that I have seen, even in Catholic countries, are ugly modern structures.

[Revolting cat!]

I tell you this, even if this is beautiful by current secular architectural standards, it will not age well. It reminds me of the post-stalinist architecture in Russia and elsewhere, that was superior to what preceded it and hasn’t aged well at all.