Marcel Breuer, St. John's Abbey Church, Collegeville, MN, 1961
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Kyle Schumann & Katie MacDonald of After Architecture, Hearth Cabin, 2014 (via arkitekcher)
"Distilling the components of the classic backwoods cabin down to a wood stove and a stack of firewood, Hearth hybridizes conventionally disjunct elements into a seamless occupiable space — a domestic chimney. Contrasting the vertical timbers of the farm’s wooded landscape, the building takes form as a horizontal layering of wood members, from the slatted rain screen facade to the logs it stows. Stocked with logs that double as both fuel and ornament, the cabin is readily equipped for cold nights. A warm sanctuary in the wooded landscape, Hearth offers an intimate fireside seating area and lodging for two visitors."
Source: forestsinternational.org
Henri Breuil, The Sorcerer, Trois-Frères Sanctuary Cave, France, c. 1925
"The Sorcerer is one name for an enigmatic cave painting found in the cavern known as 'The Sanctuary' at Trois-Frères, Ariège, France, made around 13,000 BC. The figure's significance is unknown, but it is usually interpreted as some kind of great spirit or master of the animals. The unusual nature of The Sanctuary's decoration may also reflect the practice of magical ceremonies in the chamber. In his sketches of the cave art, Henri Breuil drew a horned humanoid torso and the publication of this drawing in the 1920s influenced many subsequent theories about the figure. However, Breuil's sketch has also come under criticism in recent years. A single prominent human figure is unusual in the cave paintings of the Upper Paleolithic, where the great majority of representations are of animals."
Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza and Luis Laorga, Sanctuary of Arantzazu, Oñati, Basque Country, Spain, 1950-5
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Ricardo Bofill, Maritxell Sanctuary, Canillo, Andorra, 1978 (via cjwho)
'On the evening of a popular holiday in 1972 the ancient Romanesque Sanctuary caught fire and was destroyed. The building complex were left in blackened ruins, survived only by the original apse and vaulting over the altar and laterday bell-tower.'
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Site Plan of the Sanctuary of Apollo, Delphi, Greece, c. 400 BC (via archiveofaffinities)
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Pythion or Sanctuary of the Bulls / Exhibition Hall for a War Gallery, Delos, Greece, 306-1 BCE (via archiveofaffinities)
Santuario de Las Lajas, Nariño, Colombia, 1916-49