SIGNAL

Future ruin

CONCEPT

3 ENTRIES

The church of Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay at Nevers: two board-marked concrete shells split and pushed apart above a low entrance, and inside, a windowless nave whose floor slopes in two ramped halves toward a low point, lit only where the shells fail to meet.

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Sainte-Bernadette du Banlay

Claude Parent + Paul Virilio · 1963–1966

The Nakagin Capsule Tower seen from the street below, its stacked prefabricated capsules receding up the corner of the shaft against a flat grey sky.

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Nakagin Capsule Tower

Kisho Kurokawa · 1972

A level of the silo set: open steel bridges crossing the central shaft, lit from the walls, with the stair winding down out of frame.

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Silo

Graham Yost · 2023–