Plate G7.no5: Side-Chapel Revelation: St Peter’s Seminary – Cardross (Scotland)

I’ve two reasons for including this photograph, and neither has anything to do with whether it’s a good photograph or not. That’s not to say I dislike it, not at all – it’s just that I don’t think it was a hard image to capture. Not in the slightest. The composition was easy…
No, it’s more so because it reminds me of two things: Ronchamp Chapel by Le Corbusier…and the wonder of construction.
Of the former, the reference is obvious, viz a viz the form. Of the latter, something that always amazes in architecture is what goes on underneath. The service that materials provide, their purpose, much of which is often hidden to the naked eye. It’s illusory, by nature……