I'd hate to be in one in an earthquake.
Brutalist Churches
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#22Shouldn't churches evoke feelings of divinity instead of oppression? (I know it's popular to hate on brutalist architecture, but really isn't a place of worship the last place you'd want it?)
They could soften it up by adding some plants. Eco-brutalist!
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#23These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmares. All that echo-ey concrete, yikes.
Quake??
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#24Montreal has some great brutalist buildings, and there are few brutalist churches in the east-end of the island. I grew up with many buildings of this style and I must say I've grown fond of them. I know they are seen as cold, but they bring me warmth.
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#25Shouldn't churches evoke feelings of divinity instead of oppression? (I know it's popular to hate on brutalist architecture, but really isn't a place of worship the last place you'd want it?)
Depends on who you ask. It's a somewhat common belief that churches should be plain and unadorned and that religious art can lead to idolatry. Ideas like that were particularly popular among early Protestants.
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#26Shouldn't churches evoke feelings of divinity instead of oppression? (I know it's popular to hate on brutalist architecture, but really isn't a place of worship the last place you'd want it?)
Many of the brutalist churches I’ve seen do not, IMO, “evoke feelings of oppression” (aside from any one might have as a result of personal conflict with the religious institution behind them, which is a separate issue.)
Including, I should mention, most of those in TFA.
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#27I want to read this article but the website has other ideas. Horrible UX and horrible ads (redundant, I know).
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#28I would add Catedral Metropolitana do Rio de Janeiro.
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#29These all look like churches that I would encounter with blood everywhere in the middle of a first-person shooter. They also look like total acoustical nightmares. All that echo-ey concrete, yikes.
Quake??
Mostly I was reminded of the upside-down church zone of System Shock 2. That's one of the few FPSs I bothered playing.
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#30Here's one in Madison WI, that was taken down and rebuilt in a more traditional style a few years ago.