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Post by Maolsheachlann on Aug 13, 2017 21:18:14 GMT
Admit it. You secretly like Googie architecture. Attachments:
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Post by cato on Jan 12, 2019 17:56:39 GMT
I picked up a copy of Ellen Rowley's More than concrete blocks Vol 11 1940-1972 over Christmas , which is an account of prominent Dublin buildings mainly modernist in this case. Book one covered many familar Dublin buildings and had interesting accounts of the rebuilding of the city after 1916 and the Civil war. The stories of how our surroundings were constructed is something I find fascinating. Miss Rowley's series of books is a labour of love and is well worth looking into. Every area should have a similar guide to its architectural heritige.
I don't have access to the books at present but will post some observations next week when I get back to them.
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Post by Séamus on Mar 11, 2019 6:27:53 GMT
Crom Castle in Fermanagh has been cited as the favourite (British) National Trust property, in an interview, by the current NT head, herself a Northern Irishwoman. Disputable perhaps, but BBC has used the buildings much as a backdrop for filming. Undisputed and mentioned also in the newspaper article was the fact that the Giant's Causeway was the most visited property belonging to National Trust in either Northern Ireland or Great Britain.
I had been looking at a 70s-published book of church(+temple+mosque+etc) architecture last week, which went through centuries of sacred buildings and finished off in Muskegon,Michigan with 1961 'brutalist' church St Francis deSales by Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer,"7000 cubic yards (of concrete) reinforced by 575 tons of steel". There was a certain pride-of-place given to the tabernacle- "chapel of the Blessed Sacrament, approached by a flight of steps, which is raised and inset in the rear of the sanctuary wall". Good for them,but, seeing that 'access' and 'full participation' of special needs parishioners is usually expected these days, as well as, in many places, an ageing factor in clergy, I wonder what they think of the brutalist concrete stairs one must climb to repose the Blessed Sacrament now?
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Post by Stephen on Apr 1, 2019 15:19:41 GMT
Is anyone on the forum interested in Gothic Revival? I have to say I really agree with the philosophy and style after the 1820s. Pugin expressed his admiration not only for medieval art but for the whole medieval ethos, claiming that "Gothic architecture is the product of a purer society." I have to agree with him.
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Apr 1, 2019 16:06:20 GMT
Is anyone on the forum interested in Gothic Revival? I have to say I really agree with the philosophy and style after the 1820s. Pugin expressed his admiration not only for medieval art but for the whole medieval ethos, claiming that "Gothic architecture is the product of a purer society." I have to agree with him. I find it a bit overwhelming. I always liked the House of Commons in photographs, but when I went to London and saw it up close, it made me feel a bit dizzy.
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Post by Stephen on Apr 1, 2019 16:13:06 GMT
Is anyone on the forum interested in Gothic Revival? I have to say I really agree with the philosophy and style after the 1820s. Pugin expressed his admiration not only for medieval art but for the whole medieval ethos, claiming that "Gothic architecture is the product of a purer society." I have to agree with him. I find it a bit overwhelming. I always liked the House of Commons in photographs, but when I went to London and saw it up close, it made me feel a bit dizzy. I also like the Palace of Westminster,it is wonderful in comparison to the most other parliament Buildings of Europe. but I'm actually talking really about after it was built. What makes you dizzy?
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Post by Maolsheachlann on Apr 1, 2019 16:28:46 GMT
I find it a bit overwhelming. I always liked the House of Commons in photographs, but when I went to London and saw it up close, it made me feel a bit dizzy. I also like the Palace of Westminster,it is wonderful in comparison to the most other parliament Buildings of Europe. but I'm actually talking really about after it was built. What makes you dizzy? The intensity of detail.
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Post by Séamus on Apr 2, 2019 12:29:30 GMT
Is anyone on the forum interested in Gothic Revival? I have to say I really agree with the philosophy and style after the 1820s. Pugin expressed his admiration not only for medieval art but for the whole medieval ethos, claiming that "Gothic architecture is the product of a purer society." I have to agree with him. Ireland in particular should be grateful to Pugin and his son Edward and his Cork-born student George Ashlin for the legacy they've left. I'm probably partial to Gothic and stained-glass myself, although I don't see huge examples of either in my everyday life. His medievalism was depicted by Rosemary Hill's scholarly biography as excessive and himself as unbalanced, but artists often are. He clashed with Bl John Henry Newman over Sarum-style Rood screens, and yet, strangely, as much as Newman seemed to find Pugin too unRoman/medieval-English, he also found his own London Oratorians too Roman/unEnglish. Auguste had differences of ideas with Irish saints also: "his first convent, built for the Sisters of Mercy in Bermondsey in 1838 had been a failure. [ven] Catherine McAuley, foundress of the order, a forthright practical woman complained that it was not 'well-suited';'the sleeping rooms are too large, the other rooms too small, the corridors confined and not well lighted'" They seemed to have worked together in the end however, even if it took generous donors to pay for a second building. About ten churches have been built or rebuilt in Australia to Auguste Pugin designs, two were completely burnt down in different eras, St Patrick's Parramatta in recent times. St Patrick's Colebrook is currently home for the traditional Mass Benedictines founded in Tasmania around the same time as Ireland's Silverstream.
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Post by Tomas on Apr 2, 2019 13:43:34 GMT
St Mary´s in Warrington, Lancashire, since a few years back the major seat for The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter in England, is an original Pugin church.
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Post by cato on Apr 15, 2019 17:46:05 GMT
The great Notre Dame of Paris is on fire as I write. Please God no one will be hurt and that the fire will be brought under control as quickly as possible.
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Post by Séamus on Apr 16, 2019 1:40:22 GMT
The great Notre Dame of Paris is on fire as I write. Please God no one will be hurt and that the fire will be brought under control as quickly as possible. Like the end of the world Even in our state the story is being googled by over twice the amount of people as Pell's conviction (my current phone gives the stats) Surreal to hear the news state that "a human chain saved Jesus' crown of thorns" Uplifting side is to see so many young Parisians crying in the images
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Post by cato on Apr 16, 2019 22:22:24 GMT
Interesting reactions to the destruction in Paris. Many journalists have exposed their limited secularist prejudices and how out of touch they are at times.
Traditionally Catholicism has honoured diocesan and Roman mother churches which are often dedicated to the Virgin , with their own feast days. The maternal nature of the church is often downplayed but it is a powerful often subconscious reality nevertheless.
Buildings especially old ones are an important part of a nation's fabric and story. The French public may have put mother church in a nursing home they never visit but seeing her in symbolic danger still causes people to stop in awe and fear.
We live in an era of fear anger and uncertainty. This may be the Titanic sinking moment for our time just as the Sinking of the great ship was a portent of the disasters of 1914 and after.
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