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Material poetry

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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 courtyard facade of the Maison de Verre in Paris: a full-height wall of translucent glass blocks in a steel frame, with slender columns and a glazed ground floor beneath.

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Maison de Verre

Pierre Chareau + Bernard Bijvoet · 1928–1932

Linde Freya Tangelder's Low Chair in cast aluminium, a single angular seat standing against a board-formed concrete wall below a strip window.

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Destroyers/Builders

Linde Freya Tangelder · contemporary

A generated study: a room of board-formed concrete, empty floor and empty wall, a single low black slab of heavy section, and a narrow plane of smoked glass at the right where light enters from above.

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Severe Futurism — interior formula

SIMULACRA.BLACK · 2026

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Severe Futurism — wardrobe formula

SIMULACRA.BLACK · 2026

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