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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

Donald Judd's concrete units standing in the grass at Chinati, open boxes of the same dimensions spaced along a line under an empty sky, with archival photographs of them being cast and assembled on site.

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Untitled concrete works

Donald Judd · various

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Torqued Ellipses

Richard Serra · 1996–1999

A Yohji Yamamoto runway look: layered black tailoring cut loose from the body, asymmetric hems, the silhouette carried by the volume of cloth rather than the figure inside it.

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Yohji Yamamoto — black volume

Yohji Yamamoto · ongoing

A look from Comme des Garcons spring/summer 1997: stretch gingham carrying down-filled pads at the shoulder, spine or hip, displacing the silhouette into a shape that belongs to no anatomy.

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Body Meets Dress, Dress Meets Body

Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons · Spring/Summer 1997

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

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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