Duke University Chapel (via carl lexicon)
I would be fine if Butler won the title tonight— it would make for great sports storying— but I would be more fine if Duke won tonight. Why?
1) Duke was the first college I rooted for when I transitioned from “sports suck” me into “woo! sports” me in junior high. Sorry, University of Texas— you were close! But Duke got me first. I credit the TIP test and lots of loose leaf for my fandom— that and my grade school (in Dallas, mind you) had an inordinate amount of UNC fans. This is what happens when in-state college basketball stinks— impressionable kids default to The Machine. We also had Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas State, Penn State, Ohio State, and Michigan football fans in junior high. I blame the parents.
2) The Duke Chapel is pretty Gothicarchitecturally wonderful. Intricate. Intimidating. EPIC. A Gothic feast for the eyes. Gothic Wonderland.
photographer: Chris Hildreth
aerial view of the Duke Chapel, blue and gray (always a fan), shadow and line
Duke Magazine -Religious Life at a Crossroads, by Bridget Booher - January/February 2008
Duke Chapel (via tz5b)
Another shot— just so you can appreciate its relative height.
Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral, France (larger)
What’s the first thing that catches your eye in this shot of the French city- countryside? The epic, black, Gothic cathedral? Good, me too.
The Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l’Assomption de Clermont-Ferrand) … is built entirely in black lava stone, which makes it highly distinctive, and very visible from a great distance … The main originality of the structure is the material used: the rock from Volvic (of the Trachy-andésite type) that gives the building its dark colour and whose strength allows the construction of highly delicate pillars.
Clermont-Ferrand, France via pierre m
// nemoi
architecture and facade— hotel? apartment? France?
black and white, windows, balcony
I am not 100% sure, but I am willing to bet the farm that this is the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Reims, France. Epic churches featuring gothic architecture are easy favorites of mine.
// alixevette
