Meis dismisses the Breuer and Nevi church which is shown at the opening of the article: “It is a sheet of concrete that pretends to be nothing else. It looks more or less like a giant sidewalk lifted up and placed horizontally across the sky.”
Strikes me as manipulating criticism. The author freely admits to having not visited the site, so his criticism is really about his impressions of the photograph.
Of the Eiffel Tower, it’s said French author “...Guy de Maupassant ate lunch everyday at the base of The Eiffel Tower, because that was the only place in Paris from which he could not see it...”
I’ve not visited this church, but I can fully imagine if you stood underneath the bell tower would cast a most unique shadow and not have the same impression of lifted sidewalk. Pfft!
Now, Breuer’s Norton Shores church? Looks like a hideous bunker (in the photo). Haha
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I've always admired Nervi's concrete works: https://www.google.com/search?q=nervi+concrete+buildings&btn...
Strikes me as manipulating criticism. The author freely admits to having not visited the site, so his criticism is really about his impressions of the photograph.
Of the Eiffel Tower, it’s said French author “...Guy de Maupassant ate lunch everyday at the base of The Eiffel Tower, because that was the only place in Paris from which he could not see it...”
I’ve not visited this church, but I can fully imagine if you stood underneath the bell tower would cast a most unique shadow and not have the same impression of lifted sidewalk. Pfft!
Now, Breuer’s Norton Shores church? Looks like a hideous bunker (in the photo). Haha