“Christ Cathedral.” It’s sad what that diocese is doing to what was an award-winning structure designed by a famous, world-class architect. The diocese did a nice job on refurbishing the rest of the extensive campus. The cathedral building itself is a story onto itself. A sad and expensive one at that.
I however wish they would do something like the old Nativity thing the Crystal Cathedral did. I know some folk didn’t like that approach, but it was beautiful and reminded a lot of people to keep Christ in mind during Christmas.Yes I have. More than once. The restoration of the cathedral is still not complete. It has yet to reopen.
The office buildings, homes, schools and other public buildings of the 19th Century were a lot fancier as well than brutalist and other modern architecture styles of the modern era.
And difficult/expensive to maintain.
And a lot of them have bitten the dust, razed a long time ago. More churches remain from that time period than do private homes or office buildings.
I would certainly hope so…
It definitely makes sense, Steel replaced masonry for most office and commercial construction in the 20th Century, you can build a steel building a lot higher.
It’s not about construction techniques – which can be used to construct churches, office buildings and homes. Once would HOPE that churches would be conserved rather than replaced as technology does not change their use.
construction started some time in 1139