Erik Bootsma🌸🇳🇱
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Award winning Catholic architect & author. Specialist in classical 🏛️ & sacred architecture⛪️ Instructor at @CatholicDistU Beauty is truth. Bakfietser
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Texas widened I-10 from 8 lanes to 22 in 2005. Travel times INCREASED by 33% afterwards.
They only spent $2.8 billion to do so. When you spend billions to get the opposite effect of what you intend, how is this not government waste?
From City Limits by
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I'm becoming convinced a huge portion of America has become pathologically anti-social.
That people be outside, walking, enjoying sunshine, children playing and having ice cream, all without being inside is a BAD thing is a seriously screwed up view of the world.
@ErikBootsma
I genuinely cannot understand why anyone would desire to live like this. It truly confounds me.
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The traditional city preserves the countryside.
To be an urbanist is to be a ruralist as well.
The auto oriented city sprawls to accommodate the car and destroys the rural to make the suburban.
Build compact beautiful towns connected by rail to preserve a beautiful landscape.
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Eight stories and it's not designed to look like a box.
We can build beautiful if we have the will to do so.
Sebastian Treese does it again!
New building going up at Mannesmannufer in Düsseldorf, inspired by the facades of the 6th Arrondissement in Paris.
Masterclass 👌
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@tinsleybach
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Massachusetts and Alabama are different countries.
As are California and Indiana
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I'm an urbanist BECAUSE I love the country. The only way to preserve the countryside, rural life and actual small town life is to be an urbanist.
This isn't just theory, the 2nd biggest agricultural producer in the world is also the west's densest, the Netherlands.
I think a lot of rural folks don't get why the whole "it's illegal to build this type of walkable dense urbanism" thing ultimately impacts rural places.
If our few walkable dense city areas are "museumized" by regs that make it illegal to build new ones, they become luxury
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Found this image of downtown Portland Oregon in 1939. Every single building in this image was destroyed to build a freeway.
The cult of the automobile is the most destructive force in the world today.
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Give us a W for my new daughter born today.
Happy birthday Zita.
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How I usually feel walking into churches built since 1970:
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Extremely proud to announce our firm, in partnership with designer Joel Pidel, will be building a new monastery for the Carmelite Nuns of Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania.
Home for 24 nuns, the Mount will be a place of perpetual peace, holiness and prayer.
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Proposal for a new parish church in the Southwest.
Designed according to the traditions of Spanish architecture, it would provide a visible expression of the faith and the beauty of the liturgy.
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@SueRichart
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Even with machines at least one cow has to be milked by hand every day. My aunt is in her 90s and has Popeye arms.
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When Richard Meier built the "Millennium Church" in Rome it was hailed as a perfect church, brilliant white and geometric, the architectural press ate it up and heaped praise on it. Today it's a drab, waterstained mess that is a blight on an already unattractive suburb.
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Proposal for a monastery in the southwest US.
Made of local stone, it will be designed to last 1000 years.
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St. John's Park - New York City
Same view
1830s - 2019
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Cities aren't loud, cars (and trucks and motorcycles) are loud.
Tons of people out enjoying a day and it's the most peaceful relaxing day.
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Thread of best urban planning and urban interventions by architects and planners. (Inspired by
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thread of worst ideas)
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First up:
The Cotton District
Starkville Mississippi
Dan Camp, developer
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The woman behind the wheel cannot see any of these children.
Oh please do tell me how unsafe my electric bike is without a helmet.
'Who caused the accident?' is a question often used to avoid asking 'What allowed the accident to be so destructive?' (
@mrendell
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Critics of the Executive Order on classical architecture for Federal Buildings are peddling following:
1:The US has no official style of architecture
2:The US has never had an official style of architecture
3:That classicism is somehow fascist.
Every one of these is false
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Yet another of millions of examples of how INSANE the 1960s was architecturally. Who honestly thought this looked better with cheap linoleum as opposed to beautiful and colorful tile patterns?
We used Covid-19 shutdown to do projects that would’ve been inconvenient for residents regularly (street paving, park renovations etc). One project was ripping up the 1960s vinyl floor at city hall. We thought we’d find garbage but instead we found the original from 100 yrs ago
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Proposal for a new cathedral in Tijuana Mexico.
Showing off a bit of my own work.
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'Some artists paint the Mona Lisa, others can only paint a moustache on the Mona Lisa'
- Anthony Visco
christo wraps paris’ arc de triomphe in recyclable silvery blue fabric
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Myths of Modernist Architecture: Classical buildings are exorbitantly expensive compared to Modernist ones.
Tuscaloosa Federal Courthouse 2012
$47.8M (adjusted to 2020: $54M)
$426/sqft (adjusted)
Eugene Federal Courthouse 2006
$96M (adjusted 2020: $123M)
$464/sqft (adjusted)
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As a life long conservative, the right's absolutely knee jerk negative reaction to the idea that trains could be a viable part of a larger transportation system, while simultaneously supporting massive subsidies for freeway building and maintenance remains baffling to me.
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Here's a new bus station that was built in Poland this year, and the original proposal that the Mods put forward and the citizens rightly "infringed on the architect's freedom of expression" and rejected it.
Public architecture should serve the public, not architects.
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@ChristinaPushaw
@RadioFreeTom
Notable figures in the Continental Army/Congress
Henry Knox: ran a bookstore
Nathaniel Greene: ran a foundry
Geo. Washington: surveyor
Benjamin Franklin: amateur scientist
Samuel Adams: brewer
Paul Revere: silversmith
Once upon a time being "politician" was a bad thing
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If your kid didn't dress up as St. Denis for Halloween you're not doing it right.
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Dear clients, if you want to design a classical building, PLEASE hire a classical architect.
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Extremely excited to finally share the plans for this wonderful new plan in the heart of Detroit.
This neighborhood will be the home for the already flourishing community of
@StJosephShrineD
Though small, it will be a big part of revitalizing Detroit.
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There's no reason that a church has to surrounded by a sea of parking. Instead it can be the heart of a neighborhood.
Here's a project I worked on with my former boss Milton Grenfell to transform a suburban parish into a complete neighborhood center.
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Unbelievable.
Biden removes traditional architectural appointees because why not.
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Dear architects, what is preventing you from building like this?
Carlton Landing Oklahoma
@1000yearhouse
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Planning your streets to serve those driving through your neighborhood rather than serving those who live there is a recipe for disaster.
"Cities are meant to stop traffic. That is their point. That is why they are there. That is why traders put outposts there, merchants put shops there, hoteliers erect inns there. Rationally one wants to have traffic *stop* there, not go *through*."
—Kirkpatrick Sale
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You can like traditional buildings and also like new buildings at the same time.
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This is an architectural crime.
Note the lovely, if normal looking buildings that they're destroying to create a big blank box.
Coffey wins approval to overhaul London Irish Centre
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Please say a prayer for me. I was just told I may have a major opportunity to effect real change in public architecture.
Really would love to be a part of this. Your prayers will help.
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Trains are the only way to move people between places without destroying the places in between.
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This is an absolute travesty.
So Macron and the French modernists are pushing to rebuild Notre Dame in 5 years, and they're ignoring polls which show 54% of the French public want it rebuilt EXACTLY as it was. But that's not all:
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Architectural critics should be forced to revisit and show pictures of the buildings they praise after 20 years.
Normal buildings need maintenance, it's true, but modernist buildings need extensive cleaning to stay true to the original promised results.
When Richard Meier built the "Millennium Church" in Rome it was hailed as a perfect church, brilliant white and geometric, the architectural press ate it up and heaped praise on it. Today it's a drab, waterstained mess that is a blight on an already unattractive suburb.
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@TelegraphWorld
Um, she was so unpopular as a candidate that she withdrew before a single vote was cast, and was tapped for the role simply because she ticked the right boxes.
Tulsi would have been a better VP in terms of popularity.
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Modernism is terrible architecture.
That's it. That's the tweet.
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This is an event that could change the world.
Friend of mine says known from other sources that there are lost works of Aristotle in the collection.
Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD.
Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000
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Our design for a new chapel & classical school at St. James-on-the-Glebe Anglican Church in Gloucester Virginia.
The plan centers around the original 1700 Glebe (parsons) house and feature architecture to match the historic home. Also featuring a working farm & retreat homes.
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Another terrible logo by the Vatican, a couple thoughts.
1. The current episcopacy is so rooted in the 70s that they can't help but keep using this bland corporatized dreck.
2. At least it isn't another Rupnick
Why did the Vatican come up with such a tacky jubilee logo? Can’t the Catholicism that inspired Fra Angelico, Michelangelo, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Henry Ossawa Tanner produce a beautiful logo, rather than kitsch that looks like a sixth-grade art project?
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Please pray for my little daughter Bridget. We are in the ER after she inhaled a toy in bed. Could have been so much worse, and she's doing well.
About to go into the OR to get it out.
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Yeah It's an incredible wrong that would be corrected but hey, a Harvard PhD candidate thinks it's dumb so there you go.
Elites are always going to crap on this but the public would support it to the hilt.
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"The Litchfield"
Another one of our little pre-designed house plans we'll be releasing soon. This is a 4BR / 3 bath with an ample front porch that will be great to sit out and watch thunderstorms and fireflies on summer nights like tonight.
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@realOmarSheriff
This conforms with every Southerners experience.
Southern Whites live side by side with other races but Northerners do not.
They in the north love to tout their prorgessive ideas but in practice are more un neighborly than Southern people.
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Whoever did this needs to be drawn and quartered.
oh i have just witnessed a homicide im actually going to be sick
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Finally, as opposed to Modernist buildings, which only look good shiny, pure and new, a traditional building looks BETTER with time.
A bit of weather staining provides texture, interest and comfort as compared to looking drab, dingy and dangerous as aged Modernism does.
/fin
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Name a bigger downgrade.
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Every time there is a papal mass these days, I always shudder at the temporary architecture they use, usually shoddy and tacky.
Compare it to the Chicago Eucharistic Congress at Soldier Field in the 1920s. Just magnificent, and all "temporary" architecture.
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Compared with the lifetime of traditional buildings, it's not even close. Most traditionally built structures, with natural materials such as brick, stone, clay tiles and wood can last for centuries.
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@erik_kaars
I remember going to a place called "The American Sandwich Shop" at the train station in Bamberg.
I ordered away in German, and he responded fine till I asked for yellow mustard.
"They don't do that here man" he was American of course.
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"It may be difficult to define civilization...
but it isn't so difficult to recognize barbarism."
Kenneth Clarke
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Our design for a proposed new church for St. Joseph Catholic Church, Richmond Virginia - 2016
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One of the most mendacious traits of Modernist architecture is overselling the "sustainability" of Modernism.
It's a complete sham.
This building looks to be already falling apart, negating any possible claims to energy efficiency.
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Dear Planners, what is preventing you from designing a street like this for people to live on?
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I'll say it:
Rothko is hot garbage.
There's nothing there to "not get", it's qite easy to understand.
It is art intentionally made to destroy thousands of years of beauty, technique and culture in order to sell the narcissistic view of art's end as self expression.
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There should be an absolute public outcry about this. Norfolk Virginia is planning to tear down a beautiful century old high school because of "traffic" concerns and to replace with a bland modernist design by corporate architects.
Shame.
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You can't convince me that Dubai isn't hell with urbanism like this.
Made it safely to Dubai. Apparently I'm the only person in the city. 😎
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Dear architects, what is preventing you from building like this?
(Tuscaloosa Federal Courthouse - 2012 - HBRA Architects)
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I'm sorry I won't be calling Twitter "X" and I definitely will not be calling Turkey, "Turkiye"
Just like I won't be referring to the countries of Deutschland, Magyarszorzag, or Espana.
The whole removal of our English words for places is pointless pandering.
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Classical music and classical architecture are literally made for each other.
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When you add in traditional details, such as cornices to shed water away from the surfaces of the building, to prevent staining, away from window sills to prevent infiltration, and away from foundations to prevent erosion, traditional buildings maintenance is much easier.
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In the 1930s St. Louis Missouri demolished it's entire French Quarter to get Federal bailout dollars.
The neighborhood was vibrant and the vote to demolish was a complete fraud.
This is what it was and what it became.
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@CurtisHouck
@espn
I prefer the kind of race hustling where guys hustle to win races instead of inciting the races against each other.
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@visegrad24
Ok why is Morrocco considered somewhere that people need asylum? No wars going on as far as I recall, average as far as repession goes for ME, but then judging by most of the asylum seekers they seem MORE Islamist than their govts.
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@right_populist
This is the guy who tried to poison a whole town in Eastern Oregon when they couldn't take it over.
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So a lot of big negative hype about Christ Cathedral in Orange County being finished. I really do empathize with the priest whose tweet set it off. But the sad point is the former Crystal Cathedral built by a televangelist is a terrible expression of Catholic theology.
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Every negative comment here is from architects or architecture students who are entirely brainwashed in Modernist utilitarianism.
The schools all need to be entirely reformed.
An architect saying “ugly buildings are completely fine” is utterly unthinkable. If this attitude overtakes the profession publicly as it has privately for a century, many will ask “why does this wretched profession even exist?
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I've been vaccinated.
I don't care if you have or not.
But forcing people by threatening their livelihoods to take something that is decreasing in efficacy, and in the case of people already infected, unneeded, is insanity.
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Modernism is unsustainable for the simple fact that after only a few decades of expensive maintenance and decay it becomes unbearably ugly.
This means either a massive expense in virtually rebuilding these structures or demolition.
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@wesyang
16 tyear olds can 100%make life altering decisions about their bodies, but 18 year olds are completely incapable of being responsible for understanding the consequences of taking out student loans.
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Remember: Modernist architects HATE classical architecture. They prove this by their contemptuous designs.
More that that they hate that people would want classical architecture.
Look at the hate they spew at those who design classical architecture and those who promote it.
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Our proposal for St. Joseph Catholic Church, Richmond. The interior is oriented east and as a FSSP parish designed ad orientem. The church will be the culmination of a 15 year master plan.
#newclassical
@acatholicherald
@CatholicHerald
@matthewschmitz
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No building can survive without maintenance, but when deciding to build for a long time, like a church, building traditional is the only way to go.
Modernist buildings need overhauls every 20-30 years, compared to 100 years for traditional buildings.
Choose wisely.
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Createstreets asks"What regulations would prevent you from building a street like this?"
Most of the responses came down to "There's no way firetrucks/trash trucks/ etc going to serve this street.?"
This answer is symptomatic of the bad ideas that drive urban design today
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Please pray for me as I have a MAJOR possible opportunity that is not at all financially advantageous to me but could really help the cause of classical architecture in this country.
Still not 100% but would love your support.
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Everything in this painting but the dome, ie the entire French Quarter, was systematically demolished in the 1920s.
St. Louis: "The Gateway to the West" in 1878 by John Stobart
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Want to learn more about classical architecture or how to design classical architecture?
Our 6 week Virtual Classical Studio is now taking registrations.
Weekly talks and Q&A and 1 on 1 time with expert classical architects.
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The new library now under construction at Benedictine College.
@BenedictineKS
Initial design is by James McCrery, and we're proud to have a very small part in this project, doing a bit of work on interior details and a redesign of the main entry facade.
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And yet they never bother to ask WHY there are no young progressive priests?
Because the philosophy of turning the Church into a progressive NGO with terrible music, awful art and atrocious dated architecture never actually bore any fruit as far as vocations go.
The liberal ethos that swept the U.S. Catholic Church is undergoing an immense change, with plummeting church attendance, increasingly conservative priests and young people searching for more tradition reshaping parishes across the country.
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"Europe is so beautiful"
Oh wait, this is America. This is what we built until we let GM and Ford rot our brains so that we equated driving 30 miles a day to go to work or to shop or to see our friends as "freedom".
Traditional downtown districts can't be built in most cities today due to modern parking mandates. These regressive regulations require property owners to build excessive parking spaces that make places unwalkable, uninviting, and financially unproductive.
#BlackFridayParking
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Dear architects, what is preventing you from building like this?
(Maximilian Hegele, 1873-1945)
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People often say as Catholics we shouldn't spend money building a beautiful church.
"You can worship anywhere" but never seem to put that standard to other major purchases that everyday Catholics make.
Lets compare what people pay for houses and cars with chuches,
A thread:
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The architects claimed to use this for aesthetic reasons as well: "The walls also contain titanium dioxide to keep the appearance of the church white."
The results after less than 15 years prove this to be a lie.
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There is an entire generation of Catholic architects, artists and craftsmen who will have a lifetime of work undoing the damage the 60s wrought on sacred architecture.
St. Elizabeth of Hungary's altar was built by a priest and once used by a cardinal who's on the path to canonization. It's now dismantled and damaged, after the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest came to the Cleveland parish.
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@VamonosLA
Might be true but for the fact that every single widening project is marketed as a " traffic solution" ie it will reduce traffic.
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