THE ARCHITECTURE OF CULTURE 

      This picture depicts a cathedral within Port of Spain. To be more exact this is the Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral.The cathedral is a very old building however, the condition of it is astonishing, it looks like it hasn't age a whole lot. This could be due to the cathedral being constantly maintained . The cathedral sits in the heart of the city and among the ever changing architecture of the surrounding buildings but this building has the same architecture it had when it originally built. This building is a religious building and thus there are strong values and meanings attached to the building, therefore any changes especially in terms of "modernizing" the architecture of the cathedral would be associated by great resistance from a number of groups.
      According to Tim Hall (chapter 8 - Urban Geography), a rise in civilizations grew from the demands for religious buildings and thus a lot of these buildings within the urban space today tend to have a more older architecture quality to them.   
  
The following link is a blog entry about the history of the Holy Trinity Anglican Cathedral and also it gives great detail about the meaning and history of the architectural detail of the cathedral. Very Interesting!!
 http://thinkinginsomniac.wordpress.com/2011/07/04/architecture-sketch-holy-trinity-cathedral-in-port-of-spain-trinidad/

this link below gives a different view to religious buildings, it basically shows different pictures of different contemporary ideas for the architecture of such an important building in society, it raises the idea of maybe modernization of religious buildings is possible in a good way. Or maybe religious building should be left to their original architecture. 

http://openbuildings.com/collections/contemporary-religious-buildings-collection-48688


REFERENCES

Hall,Tim and Heather Barrett. Urban Geography. New York: Routledge, 2012. Print 
Hartshorn, Truman. Interpreting the City: An Urban Geography. United States of America: John Wiley and Sons, 1980. Print