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Notre Dame du Haut looks nice, but it's also the worst looking religious building I've seen in France aside from a few other "modern churches".

by Zababa 5y ago

brimble 5y ago
I was like "this isn't so bad" but then I got to the photo of all the mis-matched bizarre windows on one side, like someone totally screwed up editing a house in The Sims. Yikes. It looks like the architectural version of painting yourself into a corner and just giving up and letting that part be screwed up, rather than rethinking the whole thing to fix it. The... steeple, I think it's meant to be? Also kinda looks like a mistake, rather than something done on purpose. The inside's OK but I concur with it still being one of the uglier "nice" churches I've ever seen. Overall looks like it'd be better as, I dunno, part of a monastery or something? Maybe Tony Stark's vacation home or something, from the better angles.
- davidivadavid 5y ago
  "My son could paint that" vibes. Hacker News art criticism at its best.
  - brimble 5y ago
    Shrug Absent context I'd definitely take the mismatched-windows exterior shot as the result of something like the Internet-famous time that amateur (in Spain, I think?) tried to restore a painting of Jesus. [EDIT] My point is, if someone told me some other parts of the building were a mistake, much less something like the Sistine Chapel, I'd be like "no way". That particular view of the building? Someone told me it was a mistake, I'd be like "haha, yeah, clearly, hope they fix it so it doesn't keep dragging down the rest of the building"
- Zababa 5y ago
  It's not really bad, but the average church is very beautiful.
  - brimble 5y ago
    Yeah, absolutely, I liked several of the photos quite a bit. They didn't really say "church" to me, mostly—maybe a really cool library?—but part of it's just that most "nice" churches are really pretty, so the competition's stiff. Given some of the reactions in posts, I actually expected it to be a lot worse than it was.

Notre Dame du Haut looks nice, but it's also the worst looking religious building I've seen in France aside from a few other "modern churches".

by Zababa 5y ago

Notre Dame du Haut looks nice, but it's also the worst looking religious building I've seen in France aside from a few other "modern churches".

brimble 5y ago

I was like "this isn't so bad" but then I got to the photo of all the mis-matched bizarre windows on one side, like someone totally screwed up editing a house in The Sims. Yikes. It looks like the architectural version of painting yourself into a corner and just giving up and letting that part be screwed up, rather than rethinking the whole thing to fix it. The... steeple, I think it's meant to be? Also kinda looks like a mistake, rather than something done on purpose. The inside's OK but I concur with it still being one of the uglier "nice" churches I've ever seen. Overall looks like it'd be better as, I dunno, part of a monastery or something? Maybe Tony Stark's vacation home or something, from the better angles.

davidivadavid 5y ago
"My son could paint that" vibes. Hacker News art criticism at its best.
- brimble 5y ago
  Shrug Absent context I'd definitely take the mismatched-windows exterior shot as the result of something like the Internet-famous time that amateur (in Spain, I think?) tried to restore a painting of Jesus. [EDIT] My point is, if someone told me some other parts of the building were a mistake, much less something like the Sistine Chapel, I'd be like "no way". That particular view of the building? Someone told me it was a mistake, I'd be like "haha, yeah, clearly, hope they fix it so it doesn't keep dragging down the rest of the building"
Zababa 5y ago
It's not really bad, but the average church is very beautiful.
- brimble 5y ago
  Yeah, absolutely, I liked several of the photos quite a bit. They didn't really say "church" to me, mostly—maybe a really cool library?—but part of it's just that most "nice" churches are really pretty, so the competition's stiff. Given some of the reactions in posts, I actually expected it to be a lot worse than it was.