In the 1950s Banlay, on the northern outskirts of Nevers, was rapidly expanding. The need for a new church was becoming important. Robert Bourgoin, the future parish priest, was appointed for the planning of the future parish by the bishop of Nevers: it was dedicated to Bernadette Soubiros.
The building of the church, by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, was from 1963 to the end of 1966. It to some extent recreates the bunkers of World War II at the same time as it indicates the havens of a cold war environment designed as refuges from nuclear attack: this is the modern church as symbol.
Parent and Virilio envisaged a new kind of architecture, an 'architecture oblique', or 'forme oblique' removed from the vertical and lateral of the past, more horizontal.
The regional newspaper Le Journal du Centre told us that the church was to be open this Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00. Needless to say, it came as no surprise to us to find the doors closed at 15:30, so we couldn't see inside!
The building of the church, by Claude Parent and Paul Virilio, was from 1963 to the end of 1966. It to some extent recreates the bunkers of World War II at the same time as it indicates the havens of a cold war environment designed as refuges from nuclear attack: this is the modern church as symbol.
Parent and Virilio envisaged a new kind of architecture, an 'architecture oblique', or 'forme oblique' removed from the vertical and lateral of the past, more horizontal.
The regional newspaper Le Journal du Centre told us that the church was to be open this Sunday from 15:00 to 18:00. Needless to say, it came as no surprise to us to find the doors closed at 15:30, so we couldn't see inside!
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