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6 Sep 2024 05:17:42 EDT (-0400)
  Re: St Pauls Cathedral  
From: scott
Date: 18 Feb 2009 08:18:28
Message: <499c0aa4@news.povray.org>
> Saw this really cool piece on St Pauls Cathedral last evening .....
>
> Wren certainly had a NON Gothic vision and did his best to not compromise 
> that idea.
>
> I was also fascinated at some of the engineering difficulties that Wren 
> (flyling buttress) and Hooke (dome and arch reinforcement) were able to 
> overcome.
>
> Has anyone been to St Pauls? ..... impressive!

Not been inside, but it certainly looks impressive.  He also did the chapel 
at my university college, which is cool :-)


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