RC!. He only missed number 7.
Followed by cslord who missed number 1 and Rocky who only missed number 6. Your prizes are untold blogger fame and glory and bragging rights.
Here's the big reveal. I plan to come back to this post and link the source for each structure for verification. Please be patient with me.
THIS IS A CHURCH
THIS IS A CHURCH
THIS IS A PRISON
THIS IS A SLAUGHTER HOUSE
THIS IS AN INSANE ASYLUM
THIS IS NESTLE'S CHOCOLATE FACTORY
THIS IS A PRISON
THIS IS A UTILITARIAN STRUCTURE
THIS IS A CHURCH
THIS IS A CHURCH
THIS IS A CONCERT HALL
THIS IS A CHURCH
... a big "thank you" to all who participated. I hope you enjoyed this year's contest. Comments have now been re-opened.
128 comments:
My guess is as follows (U = Utilitan Structure, C = Church)
1 U, 2 U, 3 C, 4 U, 5 U, 6 U, 7 U, 8 C, 9 C, 10 C, 11 C, 12 C.
This is fun!
+JMJ+
I hate to say it, but I think they are ALL churches.
Arrgh!
1. C
2. U
3. C
4. C
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. C
Although 3 could be a library. These are some outrageously ugly buildings. :(
No winners yet but good guesses!
1. C
2. U
3. C
4. C
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. U
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. U
Veni Domine Iesu!
Mark, nice try but no cigar.
1 - C
2 - C
3 - C
4 - C
5 - C
6 - C
7 - U (Please. Please.)
8 - C
9 - C
10 - C
11 - C
12 - C
1-U
2-C
3-C
4-U
5-C
6-C
7-U
8-U
9-C
10-C
11-C
12-C
Arrrgh... I'll try again!!!!
1. C
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. U
6. C
7. C
8. U
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. U
Nope. Nope. and Nope.
No winners yet.
*NOTE: If you see your submission above please do not comment on it.
1=p
2=u
3=c
4=u
5=u
6=c
7=c
8=c
9=c
10=c
11=c
12=u
Fr. D.
Sorry, Fr. All good guesses though.
1. Utilitarian structure
2. Church
3. Church
4. Utilitarian structure
5. Utilitarian structure
6. Church
7. Utilitarian structure
8. Utilitarian structure
9. Church
10. Church
11. Utilitarian structure
12. Utilitarian structure
Sorry Simon-Peter, nope.
Quite a few of you are getting stumped on the same 4 ones.
+JMJ+
Ooooh! I'll play! =D
1. U
2. C
3. C
4. U
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. U
I can't wait for the answers. Thanks for this fun post. =)
Nope. :-)
1.U
2.C
3.U
4.C
5.C
6.C
7.U
8.U
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
Based on the shape of the parking lot and those glass squares for windows, #3 looks a lot like a school. Schools are ALL about atriums, these days.....
But #2 is definitely one of those new-fangled mega-church thingies!
again, the same 4 ones keep triping every one up, sorry Deirdre.
1-c
2-c
3-c
4-c
5-u
6-u
7-c
8-c
9-c
10-c
11-u
12-c
Thanks!
I thought the church was a correctional institution.
My guess is that the utilitarian structures are 1,4,5,and 11.
I would guess all of them...
Let me give you two of the ugliest and weirdest churches you will ever visit. St. Mary's Rockledge, Florida. This one should be on your list Please see http://www.stmarysrockledge.org/history.html view the "new church"
I have been in there and it looks like it was designed, created and built by a committee of science fiction writers. The other one is closer to home St. Jean Vianney in Baton Rouge. see http://www.neworleanschurches.com/vianney_br/index.htm&h=2048&w=1536&sz=478&tbnid=VB9PW8OPhB1d1M::&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dpictures%2Bof%2Bst%2Bvianney%2Bcatholic%2Bchurch%2Bin%2Bbaton%2Brouge,%2Bla&usg=__-kOAVm_oDb0ESsJ58WR8sVIcNLw=&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image&cd=1 With it's cold concrete slab walls with the holes from the rebar visible to all parishioners and its panoramic view of a slum like duplexes, this church begs the question: what were they thinking?
"I thought the church was a correctional institution."
Does that make you the warden, Fr. L?
And as for the latest 2 guesses from Familias & Tom... nope and nope.
Is my assumption that all churches are Catholic correct?
sadly, yes. The ones that are churches are Catholic.
Here goes:
1 = U
2 = U
3 = C
4 = U
5 = U [prison]
6 = C
7 = U
8 = C
9 = C
10 = C
11 = U
12 = C
Can't wait to find out if I passed.
Lets try again
1 U (Priests quarters)
2 C (Picture from the back)
3 C (alternate entrance)
4 U (the logo)
5 U (seminary dorms?)
6 C (not the 1st without windows)
7 U (that balcony)
8 C (apse with a view?)
9 C (picture from the back)
10 C (I think I saw it before)
11 U (that flag pole)
12 C (from the back)
Here I go:
1. C
2. C
3. C
4. U
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. C
I'm sure that was just dreadful...but not as dreadful as every single one of these buildings.
nope. nope. and again nope.
I would say
1.C
2.C
3.U
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.U
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
I Can't wait for the results
ooooo, simply Catholic.... so close yet so wrong.
1.C
2.C
3.C
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.C
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
Darrell... again nope. But again, getting closer.
It seems everyone is missing the same four.
1. C
2. C
3. C
4. C
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. U
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. C
Jane, nice try but again nope.
1 - C
2 - C
3 - C
4 - C
5 - C
6 - C
7 - C
8 - C
9 - C
10 - C
11 - C
12 - C
Do I win?
francis... no.
1. U
2. C
3. C
4. U
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. U
10. U
11. C
12. C
sorry, stthomasmore1535.
Ooo! Fun!
1.U
2.C
3.U
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.U
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
And with my .02% chance:
U - Utilitarian (including possible alien spacecraft)
C - Church (including possible alien spacecraft)
1) U
2) C
3) U
4) C
5) U (Panopticon, right?)
6) C (possibly alien)
7) C
8) U
9) C
10) C
11) C
12) C
Hm:
1: c
2: c
3: u
4: u
5: u
6: u
7: c
8: u
9: u
10: c
11: u
12: c
All except 10 as church:
1. Church (even though it looks like a store with apartments)
2. Church
3. Church
4. church (even though it looks like a bunch of airport hangars)
5. Church
6. Church (closing my eyes as I write this)
7. Church (even worse than the orangy-red Slinky look-alike)
8. Church
9. Church
10. Utilitarian (looks like a greenhouse)
11. Church
12. Church
1-U
2-C
3-U
4-U
5-C
6-C
7-U
8-C
9-C
10-U
11-C
12-C
1. U
2. C
3. U
4. C
5. C
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. U
12. C
1-U
2-U
3-C
4-U
5-U
6-C
7-U
8-C
9-C
10-C
11-C
12-C
Trying the "wisdom of crowds" theory, with one guess.
1. c
2. c
3. c
4. u
5. u
6. c
7. u
8. u
9. c
10. c
11. c
12. c
My guess is they're ALL CHURCHES!
I was married in a church resembling #10! It was a WWII-era US Navy chapel, now demolished I believe! :-(
Hmmm...
c
c
u
c
u
c
c
c
c
c
c
c
Right, right?
I guess I'm wrong, though =P
1C
2C
3C
4U
5U
6U
7U
8C
9C
10C
11C
12U
1.U
2.C
3.U
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.C
9.U
10.C
11.C
12.C
1 U
2 C
3 C
4 U
5 U
6 C
7 U
8 U
9 C
10 C
11 C
12 C
1. C
2. U
3. C
4. U
5. U
6. U
7. U
8. U
9. U
10. U
11. C
12. C
Hmmm....
1 C
2 C
3 C
4 U
5 U
6 U
7 C
8 U
9 U
10 C
11 C
12 C
U - 1,5,7,8
C - 2,3,4,6,9,10,11,12
For what it's worth!
1. Utilitarian Structure
2. Church
3. Church
4. Church
5. Utilitarian Structure
6. Church
7. Utilitarian Structure
8. Utilitarian Structure
9. Church
10. Church
11. Church
12. Utilitarian Structure
1.U
2. C
3. C
4. U
5. C
6. U
7. C
8. C
9. U
10. C
11. U
12. U
1. U
2. C
3. C
4. U
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. U
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. C
I am getting a little restless.... =( a curse to all liberals who put me in this dilemma of not knowing the difference between a church and utilitarian structures!!!!!!!!!!
Argh!!!!!!!!
Just a guess...
1. C
2. C
3. U
4. C
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. U
10. C
11. U
12. C
Wow... Still no one has accurately identified all 12 structures. Only a hand full have even come remotely close.
I don't know if I should be glad you're enjoying the challenge or saddened these structures exists to the point where one can't tell the difference.
Again, if you are positive about one structure don't post the details here. Let every one have a fair chance at the challenge.
Thanks.
I think it's:
1.U
2.C
3.U
4.C
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.C
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.U
Jeanette... No, I'm sorry.
Poeta...no fair hitting up the photographer for details.
:-P comment removed.
1. A really bad house-hunting choice. Let’s mark this one #0 for “No way!”
2. A bank where both money and people are kept locked up all day.
3. A temple to a pagan goddess or the new church for RCWomenPriestesses.
4. A really bad experiment in solar paneling.
5. Currently, a meeting place for whirling dervishes who needed an unobstructed space; previously a Christian church built from the bricks of an ancient Roman temple.
6. The space ship from the invading Puppet Masters [Robert Heinlein].
7. A prison designed by an architect on LSD.
8. The Tin Man’s outhouse?
9. An giant alien bug . . . . Runnnnnnnnnn!
10. Oh! A cute little Quonset hut left over from WWII.
11. A fake egg for Mrs. Godzilla to incubate!
12. A huge, gigantic primitive explosive grenade . . . . to take out Mrs. Godzilla?
As a seminarian hoping to serve (with your prayers) in a beautiful church someday (hopefully not on this list!), I'll guess:
1.U
2.C
3.C
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.C
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
1. P/U
2. C
3. C
4. P/U
5. P/U
6. C
7. C
8. C
9. C
10. P/U (that's a quonset hut)
11. P/U
12. C
(Dave & Amy)
1.C
2.C
3.U
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.U
9.C
10.U
11.C
12.C
1.P
2.U
3.K
4.E
5.P
6.U
7.K
8.E
9.P
10.U
11.K
12.E
I submit that the churches/chapels are numbers 2,9,10, and 12, while the others are utilitarian structures.
Of course all are utilitarian structures, but I don't think philosophical answers will cut it. So here goes.
1) church
2) church
3) church
4) church
5) utilitarian
6) church
7) utilitarian
8) church
9) church
10) utilitarian
11) church
12) utilitarian
1U
2C
3U
4U
5U
6U
7U
8C
9C
10C
11C
12U
I think that 2,5,6,7, and 12 are churches.
1) U
2) C
3) C
4) U
5) U
6) C
7) C
8) U (not big enough to be a church)
9) C
10) C
11) C
12) C
Day 3 and still no winners but I really like Kelseigh answers for sure.
Do you guys want hints or want to know who was the closest to getting them all right?
Having carefully checked to make sure I didn't have the same answers as someone else AND having signed up for Google, here are my guesses:
1. Stumped- just stumped U??
2.C
3.C
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.C
8.C
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
Let me know if I'm close?
peregrinator... not even close. Sorry.
I notice that nearly everyone makes the same guess on some of these photos.
1,5,7 are prisons/utilitarian structures, the rest are churches. Reminds me of the song our director of music decided would be the anthem for our parish's 125th anniversary, "Gathering Place" or some such title "...as we gather in this place." This place? What place? Oh, is this a church? Who knew?
1.C
2.C
3.U
4.U
5.U
6.C
7.U
8.U
9.C
10.C
11.U
12.C
Once again
1 C
2 C
3 U
4 C
5 U
6 C
7 U
8 U
9 C
10 C
11 C
12 C
Giving it a shot:
1. U
2. C
3. U
4. U
5. C
6. C
7. C
8. C
9. C
10 C
11. U
12. C
No hints -- but can we get a cut-off date? As somebody (I think it was Cecily Cardew) once said:
"The suspense is killing me -- I do hope it will last."
I guess the cut off date will be midnight tonight if no one gets it before then.
Only one person got all but one right. The rest keep missing the same 4.
... so STILL no winners.
1-U
2-C
3-U
4-U
5-C
6-C
7-C
8-U
9-U
10-U
11-C
12-C
U
C
U
C
U
C
U
C
C
C
C
C
1 U
2 U
3 U
4 U
5 U
6 U
7 U
8 C
9 C
10 C
11 C
12 C
still no winners.
1 U
2 U
3 C
4 U
5 U
6 U
7 U
8 U
9 C
10 C
11 C
12 C
1) C
2) C
3) C
4) C
5) C
6) C
7) C
8) C
9) C
10) C
11) C
12) C
1.u
2.c
3.c
4.c
5.u
6.c
7.c
8.u
9.c
10.c
11.c
12.c
no.no.no.
I'm sorry.
Ok, I will try again
1. U
2. C
3. U
4. U
5. U
6. C
7. U
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. C
My guess:
1. Utilitarian
2. Church
3. Church
4. Utilitarian
5. Church
6. Church
7. Utilitarian
8.Church
9. Church
10. Church
11. Church
12. Church
I'll give it a try:
1. u
2. c
3. u
4. u
5. u
6. c
7. u
8. u
9. u
10. c
Oops, sorry, here's the last two:
11. c
12. u
They are all utilitarian structures, the Church is made up of her people.
Hat Tip to: Saint Lawrence
No body wins!!!!!
1. c
2. c
3. c
4. u
5. c
6. u
7. c
8. u
9. c
10. u
11. c
12
12. c
Take two:
U, C, C, U, C, C, U, C, U, U, C, C
One final try:
1U
2C
3U
4U
5U
6U
7U
8C
9C
10C
11U
12U
Please delete my last comment, I made a mistake
Less than five hours to go & still no winners.
I'll give it another try:
1.U
2.C
3.U
4.U
5.U
6.U
7.U
8.C
9.C
10.C
11.U
12.C
+JMJ+
Of course, with 12! possible answers, we could be here a while. Last guess:
I think they are all churches except numbers 6, 8, and 11.
3 1/2 left and still no winners.
ok.. so you got a bit more time than that... of course I do not plan to get up at midnight and check the blog.
You have till around tomorrow-ish, when I get a free moment. I do have a life, I swear it!
Last guess:
2,3,9,10 and 12 churches, others non-churches.
1. P/U
2. C
3. C
4. P/U
5. P/U
6. C
7. P/U
8. C
9. C
10. C
11. C
12. C
Making another attempt.
1 U
2 U
3 C
4 U
5 U
6 U
7 C
8 U
9 C
10 C
11 C
12 U
All churches except 3 and 11
Third time's the charm?
U, U, C, U, U, C, U, C, U, U, C, C
"The suspense is killing me--I do hope it lasts."
WIlly Wonka (Gene Wilder's)
1.C
2.C
3.C
4.U
5.C
6.U
7.U
8.C
9.C
10.C
11.C
12.C
Might be a different test for buildings originally designed to be churches.
COMMENTS CLOSED. No more guesses....
No one accurately identified all 12 structures. One person got all but one right so they'll be declared winner later at the big reveal.
Does anyone else think that Number 9 looks like a catfish?
Since I'm one of the lucky guessers who only missed one picture, it behooves that I explain the (ir)rationale behind my guesses. In some cases my reasons were legitimate; in other cases I can only thank my luck.
#1. Looks like a perfectly legitimate, though drab, office or utility apartment building. Nothing in it suggests an ugly church. So why did Carrie Cannonball include it? It must be because it IS a church!
#2. Cannot be a utilitarian building because it has a perfectly useless feature: the taller section in the back. Ergo:it must be a church.
#3. Not a church, it looks like a library or a grade school. I would have never guessed that it is a prison. Convicts are way, way, WAY too pampered in our country.
#4. This set of huts is not organized as as a church. It looks like the premises of car and motorcycle mechanics.
#5. Definitely a prison or an asylum for the criminally insane. Not even Mgr.Bugnini would have accepted this building for a church.
#6. I missed this one. It is so alien that I thought it was a church. The cheerful red color should have warned me (post-V2 churches are drabber than that) but it didn't.
#7. So horrid that it could be either a church or a prison, but two features give it away: churches don't have outside balconies or chickenwire fences.
#8. Alien enough to be a church, but too small. It could have been an anglican church, since most Episcopalian parishes only include 20 to 50 people, but Catholic parishes are much bigger than that.
#9. A huge mollusk swimming in the oceans of the fourth planet of Fomalhaut? Possibly. Or else a Catholic church inculturated in a Pacific island.
#10. A perfectly legitimate quonset hut. It must be a church, for the same reason as #1: because otherwise there would have been no reason to include it. Incidentally, I'm not offended at all by provisional structures like this used as churches, when the parish or the diocese is too poor to afford a proper building. It is only the purposeful and expensive ugliness of new-wave architecture that disgusts me. Likewise, I'm not put off by a eucharist occasionally celebrated outdoors during, say, a scout camping trip, using a log for an altar, a guitar for the music and a poncho for a chasuble. But when you regularly and purposely use drab interiors, funky vestments and guitar music inside a church, when you could do things properly, then you lose me.
#11. A neat eggshell, simple but not ugly. Looks like the auditorium of my alma mater, MIT. Not a church, new-wave churches are uglier than this.
#12. So ugly it could equally be a post-V2 church or a prison, depending on whether the top of the tower hosts a set of bells or a machine gun nest. The photo shows a scaffolding inside the top room of the tower, which could hold bells but leaves no room for guards with machine guns. Ergo: it is a church.
This is how I guessed.
Wow
very logically well thought out, Rocky. I plan on hosting a
'parade of rejects' that will include all the ugly churches I was flooded with by readers that were disqualified bc of the obvious; crosses and name signs.
Rocky,
Regarding your comment about the quonset hut church, I was thinking the exact thing today. I have nothing against taking an existing structure and using it for a church; it's the intentional building of something that is, in concept, alient to Christian tradition that bugs me.
Cannonball,
I love your contests. They are a lot of fun and give some of us an avenue for impishness.
Rocky - "#3. Not a church, it looks like a library or a grade school. I would have never guessed that it is a prison. Convicts are way, way, WAY too pampered in our country."
Well, that photo bore a strong resemblance (in my mind) to the visitor's entrance at MCI Framingham, MA (state women's prison). Had to Google to convince myself it wasn't the same.
A modern annex like that is critical to processing visitors in an efficient and secure manner (especially without treating them like criminals themselves). The rest of the facilities are somewhat more, err... venerable? ....dated? ...utilitarian?
I've never come away from my visits with an impression of the inmates being "way, way, way too pampered". Of course, the prison shown in this photo may reflect a different reality.
Assumption Greek Orthodox in Louisville, KY used to look like a quonset hut (not unlike your picture), but they built a new church.
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