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Looking out from inside the Brion Memorial's meditation pavilion through Carlo Scarpa's two interlocking concrete rings, across a lily pond to the cemetery's low boundary wall and the hills beyond.

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Brion Cemetery

Carlo Scarpa · 1969–1978

Tadao Ando's chapel at Ibaraki: a plain smooth-concrete box whose altar wall is cut through by a full-height cruciform slot, the only light in a room of dark timber pews and bare concrete.

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Church of the Light

Tadao Ando · 1989

Peter Zumthor's thermal baths at Vals: hollow blocks of local quartzite laid in three repeating course heights, standing in water, with daylight entering through narrow slots between the roofs.

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Therme Vals

Peter Zumthor · 1996

The Devs building interior: a gold-clad cube suspended in a dark vacuum chamber, reached by a walkway over a void.

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Devs

Alex Garland · 2020

The Lumon office floor from Severance: deep green carpet, white walls, four small desks with boxy terminals in an otherwise empty room.

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Severance

Dan Erickson · 2022–

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