I think the church is a striking addition to the northside, especially because you can see that dome for *miles* before you get to it. Love or hate the design -- I love that they built something *substantial*, not just another hideous church. Plus, IIRC from the IBJ, the seating/nave/altar layout is something that's very new -- never been done before.
Some really progressive [or regressive as CVS goes ;)] architecture is coming out of Carmel. Why doesn't Indianapolis dare to experiment with things like this?
Between this CVS, which is hilarious - and a typical CVS... which is sad - I'll take this one. To be fair, however, to try and get chain retail developers to modify their design, it can be very hard to avoid the result of blatantly kitsch themes.
The church, I have to say, is very similar to the CVS to me. "Substantial" - I take to mean brick. Both floating in a parking lot - and not in a way that hugs a boulevard or roadway like some of the more graceful building on Fall Creek Parkway. Having heard there were formal innovations in the interior, I wish they were expressed somehow in the exterior.
On the orthodox church vein... it would be interesting to find a reuse for the Syrian Orthodox Church that has been abandoned (guess for where) just north of 38th on Sherman.
Also, I have to say I am infinitely more pleased with the work going up in Indianapolis than in Carmel. The main experiment they have conducted is to elect a mayor that loves Poundbury.
Most of Woolen's churches are actually refined buildings.
Both of those designs just look ridiculous surrounded by a parking lot in the middle of nowhere. The best architecture in the world can't overcome that.
That design would have been a good choice for a more-urban context, such as 38th & Emerson or 38th & Illinois, or for the reface of the aged Hook's at College & the Canal. I think I would even have preferred it to the faux-Wild-West design of the new CVS to be built at 16th & Meridian.
But the best chain drugstore ever has to be the one Urbanophile posted from Milwaukee. It would have been right at home on Maple Road or Meridian Street in Indianapolis.
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I think the church is a striking addition to the northside, especially because you can see that dome for *miles* before you get to it. Love or hate the design -- I love that they built something *substantial*, not just another hideous church. Plus, IIRC from the IBJ, the seating/nave/altar layout is something that's very new -- never been done before.
Where is the CVS?
The CVS is at 131st and Towne.
Some really progressive [or regressive as CVS goes ;)] architecture is coming out of Carmel. Why doesn't Indianapolis dare to experiment with things like this?
The cvs sorta looks like a white castle. Good thing they put it in the middle of a cornfield.
Between this CVS, which is hilarious - and a typical CVS... which is sad - I'll take this one. To be fair, however, to try and get chain retail developers to modify their design, it can be very hard to avoid the result of blatantly kitsch themes.
The church, I have to say, is very similar to the CVS to me. "Substantial" - I take to mean brick. Both floating in a parking lot - and not in a way that hugs a boulevard or roadway like some of the more graceful building on Fall Creek Parkway. Having heard there were formal innovations in the interior, I wish they were expressed somehow in the exterior.
On the orthodox church vein... it would be interesting to find a reuse for the Syrian Orthodox Church that has been abandoned (guess for where) just north of 38th on Sherman.
Also, I have to say I am infinitely more pleased with the work going up in Indianapolis than in Carmel. The main experiment they have conducted is to elect a mayor that loves Poundbury.
Most of Woolen's churches are actually refined buildings.
Both of those designs just look ridiculous surrounded by a parking lot in the middle of nowhere. The best architecture in the world can't overcome that.
You sure that's not a CVS Theater?
That design would have been a good choice for a more-urban context, such as 38th & Emerson or 38th & Illinois, or for the reface of the aged Hook's at College & the Canal. I think I would even have preferred it to the faux-Wild-West design of the new CVS to be built at 16th & Meridian.
But the best chain drugstore ever has to be the one Urbanophile posted from Milwaukee. It would have been right at home on Maple Road or Meridian Street in Indianapolis.
I've never been a fan of the salmon-colored brick (as in the Holy Trinity Church) with limestone trimming. Looks washed out.
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