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ST PETER!S SEMINARY, CARDROSS (Building completed 1966 by GKC Architects closed by church as Seminary for training priests in 1980, abandoned altogether late 80!s) Photo-essay by Andrew Lee
“History has rendered the functions these constructions were meant to perform as more or less defunct, exhausted, defeated, abandoned, unwanted, forgotten or marginalised.�
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“We are left, that is to say, with an expression which has, as yet, no agreed new and necessary content.�
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“Stripped of all conventional facades of stone facing and now also of their defunct, sociological and economic meanings and functionalisms.�
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“It is unreplenished, bearing no empirical weight of objectivity.”
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