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Guess the Architecture! for 1/3/2017

Posted January 03, 2017 2:00 PM by MaggieMc

Can you figure out where and what this building is? If you don't know it yet, check back to see if anyone else does!

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01/03/2017 2:26 PM

That's the Cathedral of Brasilia, aka (português) Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida, "Metropolitan Cathedral of Our Lady of Aparecida." Designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer.
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01/04/2017 7:20 AM

Seems we have some architecture buffs here.

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01/04/2017 10:18 AM

A RC Church near where I live also has that architecture. I guess it is a popular form.

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01/04/2017 10:46 AM

There were once a couple of them in my town, though the architecture was not quite so open.

Church of Holy Updraft and Discount House of Worship (where you really CAN take it with you; just give it to us and we'll meet you on the Other Side™).
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01/03/2017 6:07 PM

I was going to say a nuclear power plant converted into a church!

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01/03/2017 7:00 PM

Church of the Immaculate Chain Reaction?

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01/05/2017 4:43 PM

Nice play upon words, the nuclei of sentences.

I can't imagine how excited the throngs would be if the place were filled to the rafters with cold neutrons?

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01/05/2017 8:58 PM

Most churches are: Home of the Frozen Chosen.
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01/06/2017 12:11 PM

Fortunately, not all churches are like that, and I suppose most of the frozen chosen have gone on to their reward - the cold, cold ground.

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01/06/2017 12:32 PM

I dunno, most that I've seen are still stacked in pews, awaiting interment.
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01/06/2017 1:39 PM

Maybe you are right, I still believe, try to love all people (it is hard sometimes), but I seldom darken the doors to the halls of religiosity.

Your heart is the throne of God, who lives there? (for you to answer in your own heart, not particularly my business). God grant you peace and joy enough.

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01/05/2017 4:42 PM

Natural draft cooling towers do not have to be associated with a nuclear plant.

Sorry, but that is a huge disservice to the natural draft tower.

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01/09/2017 10:51 AM

Andrew Westman was exactly right this week. This is the Cathedral of Brasilia, designed by Oscar Niemeyer. The cathedral has a diameter of 230 ft, but is most often noted because “the only visible structure of cathedral” consists of sixteen concrete columns, with “parabolic sections,” intended to represent two hands reaching up to the sky.
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