Architectural historian Hal Kalman writes a heartfelt tribute to a recently deceased and renowned Anglican clergyman, Herbert O'Driscoll -- and also manages to include the story of how Kalman and other architectural preservationists managed to save Vancouver's Christ Church Cathedral, one of the oldest and most admired buildings of the city centre -- against O'Driscoll's detrmination to replace it with a new highrise.
Kalman's point is that by selling the air rights over the cathedral, as he proposed, the diocese earned enough revenue from a new building just north of the Cathedral to make its demolition and sale unnecessary.
Insert reference to rendering unto Caesar here.
