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"A beautiful face wearing a VR headset" says commenter

Dezeen·Ariane Shah·about 1 month ago
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In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the arched entrance added by Japanese studio Kengo Kuma to Angers Cathedral in France . Unveiled earlier this month, the concrete arches double as a gallery, and frame the medieval sculptural doorway on the west side of the Angevin Gothic-style cathedral. Kengo Kuma added an arched entrance to Angers Cathedral in France "A beautiful face wearing a VR headset" The juxtaposition of the modern arches with the original doorway stoked plenty of debate in the comments this week. "It's very disappointing," wrote Grace Plus . "The design reduces the all important central medieval doorway – the focus of the design problem – to an incidental, secondary event." Similarly dissatisfied, David Chase Martin wrote , "The arches should have stood alone as pure objects, the flat top is completely antithetical." Commenter Winterberg agreed, "The cathedral looks like a beautiful face wearing a VR headset." Other readers took a more practical approach.…

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