The Sino-French Science Park Church near Chengdu looks almost too fragile to be real. Built in 2019 from thousands of white aluminum tubes—no welding, no heavy materials—it feels light enough to float. Sunlight passes straight through it, so it barely casts a shadow, glowing by day and turning into a soft lantern at night. Inspired by French Impressionism and Chinese minimalism, it’s a chill little bridge between two design worlds.
I thought this was minecraft with shaders
Glass pane church
Raytracing!
Wow. Feels like my eyes are glitching. I checked other photos and it’s really weird
Thanks for making me do this. Honestly one of the coolest things I've ever seen personally. Very ethereal, and invokes the same kind of vibe as seeing old abbey ruins on a foggy morning.
Somehow this picture gives me Farcry 5 vibes. The bliss…
That game's soundtrack was unreasonably gorgeous.
The loading screens were pure art. They have millions of views on YouTube, the fucking loading screens.
I remember lamenting how short they were for this very reason. "Keep Your Rifle By Your Side (Reinterpretation)" always had me stopping just to listen to it for a bit.
Do the Christian populations in that area actually go to that church or is it just a tourist photoshoot place? Cause looking inside, it's not functional at all.
Edit: I just delved into it and reality looks rather disappointing
yeah its just an art piece and it doesn't work well without very bright light.
also OP's description is just AI generated crap reposted by spam sites.
Chengdu in southern China gets intense summers so there's plenty of sunlight
That's true, it looks fine for its intention, but don't go out of your way without making sure the weather is good. (well, go ahead if you want to it just looks much better in bright light.)
on the contrary I was extremely disappointed that there was nothing to make the Chengdu panda park a more pleasant experience during the long 120+f summers. And all the pandas go inside in some dingy little enclosure
?? I'm just talking about this structure.
It depends on the light, I guess.
No real difference between this and any other park Chapel
Rendering vs IRL
Worthless beauty.. 🙄
I was like “how do they keep it so clean?”…”oh they don’t”.
There are a lot of projects in this direction that I think work better and are more functional like:
https://thorncrown.com/
https://www.cooperchapel.com/
This is a great art piece.
beautiful!
those two are amazing!
Wow, very cool!
Looks like bristle blocks / stickle bricks
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickle_Bricks
keeping it clean that must be hell. and how does sunlight pass through aluminium? sorry if im being dumb
This looks cool af
This is kind of amazing
Midsommar vibe
What in the AI is that description.
Right, so r/architecture
Yep, def the Wino-French experience for me
Do ... do I need to make an appointment with the optometrist???
I’ve been trying to build this in Minecraft but I have no idea what the dimensions are.
Disconnecting...
Assasins creed loading screen
And adding to all those comments, how do they keep it this white?!?
it looks like its from another dimension. Quite fitting for a church. I love it.
Does anyone have the address or Google maps location? I want to save it on the map and can't find an address anywhere.
Impressionism irl?
Someone wrap a texture around this model
It looks like minecraft with shaders
Oh that's a cool Photoshop effect.
What do you mean it's a real picture?
Ai slop from op
What do you think is AI, here? Is everything AI to you?
Read the description lmfao
It's just a bot account posting ai generated summaries of old posts. how slow are you that you don't immediately notice this?
Also the post is botted, or did you think 3.5k upvotes but only 30 comments is normal?
So, the title/description, not the content, is what you were referring to as AI slop, got it
Who tf said anything about a title. You are braindead
I meant the text, not the image. Are you always this charming?
Good edit :)
Yes, to clarify what I was referring to. Notice I left the word "title" there, to be nice to you and your reply
shoots an look at Arknights
Am I the only one just going. Church. On. Science park. ?!?