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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

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

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

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–

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