To: marshmallow
***its main buildings were designed in disparate modernist styles by three well-known architecture firms: Richard Neutra, Philip Johnson and John Burgee, and Richard Meier.***
Designed to win Architectural awards,yet it was beat out by the small THORNCROWN CHAPEL in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
34 posted on
08/22/2012 6:50:20 PM PDT by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(Tyrannies demand immense sacrifices of their people to produce trifles.-Marquis de Custine)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Thanks for mentioning the Thorncrown Chapel, I had never heard of it before, what a beautiful building, it deserves to have won.
43 posted on
08/22/2012 9:09:49 PM PDT by
battousai
(Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Designed to win Architectural awards,yet it was beat out by the small THORNCROWN CHAPEL in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. The Crystal Cathedral is light, airy, and constructed with as little substance as possible. It's a perfect representation of Schuller's church. If that's what the Catholic Church wants to be known for, let them have at it.
51 posted on
08/23/2012 6:03:45 AM PDT by
Alex Murphy
(http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2898271/posts?page=119#119)
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