In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the arched entrance added by Japanese studio Kengo Kuma to Angers Cathedral in France .

Unveiled earlier this month, the concrete arches double as a gallery, and frame the medieval sculptural doorway on the west side of the Angevin Gothic-style cathedral.

Kengo Kuma added an arched entrance to Angers Cathedral in France

"A beautiful face wearing a VR headset"

The juxtaposition of the modern arches with the original doorway stoked plenty of debate in the comments this week.

"It's very disappointing," wrote Grace Plus . "The design reduces the all important central medieval doorway – the focus of the design problem – to an incidental, secondary event."

Similarly dissatisfied, David Chase Martin wrote , "The arches should have stood alone as pure objects, the flat top is completely antithetical."

Commenter Winterberg agreed, "The cathedral looks like a beautiful face wearing a VR headset."

Other readers took a more practical approach.…