[Magdalen] VTS Chapel,

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In a message dated 10/10/2015 8:26:23 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
fleenerj at gmail.com writes:

Marcel  Breurer also designed St. Francis De Sales parish Church in
Muskegon.   It closely resembles a concrete bunker from the outside.   
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So does the Abbey at Saint John's in MN.
 
There was a period when it was all the rage to have buildings
of exposed concrete.  At UW-Madison, Saint Paul's the RC
student chapel, was, a neogothic building with a large altarpiece
and much stained glass.  The authorities decided to remodel
the chapel.  
 
The existing building was completely razed and a bare,
most brutal concrete structure replaced it.  As if to remind
that there was once a lovely chapel on the site, carved wooden
statues from the original chapel were mounted on the walls
here and there.
 
Now that concrete structure is being torn down with a new,
lighter, mostly glass chapel to replace it only about 35 years later.
 
I don't think anyone is mourning the concrete bunker.
 
 
 
 
David Strag.