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Modern Nubs from Hawaii to Kronstadt & Paris with Santo Bartez — Part 6 of 7 | Classics Rotation
Santo Bartez turns to nubs on modern buildings: a Hindu temple in Hawaii completed in 2023, its sister temple in India, a 19th-century Russian fort, and a famous church in central Paris. He and the host ask why modern builders add nubs at all, and why some then chisel them off.
Santo says a Hindu monastery temple in Hawaii was carved in India, shipped over, and assembled with nubs that construction photos show, and that masons later chiseled them off and resurfaced the stone; his emails to the temple asking why got only a generic reply. He calls the nubs maker's marks or assembly instructions…
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