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Saint Peter wrote:and compare it with this....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4jm6ottcPM
Taken last Sunday (22nd April)
There is a fantastic book about Gillespie Kidd & Coia and St. Peters available from the RCAHMS, an interesting read.
http://www.rcahms.gov.uk/publications.html
Modern buildings continue to be misunderstood, unappreciated, and therefore at high risk of demolition around the world. Nine sites, including group listings as well as individual sites, were placed on the 2008 Watch list. Among them are:
St. Peter’s College, Cardross, Scotland, already a “Modern ruin,” was once revered as a masterpiece of post-War architecture, but was made quickly obsolete in its intended use as a school for Catholic priests after the Second Vatican Council decided that priests should be educated within communities instead of in isolated seminaries such as Cardross.
DickyHart wrote:no matter what ya think of gillespie,coia etc, their stuff is unique
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