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ARCHITECT: LE CORBUSIER [1954/55]

This contemporary concrete masterpiece by Le Corbusier is a must see...
They say it's design was to symbolize the Pope's hat... to me, it is an exciting combination of both great and awkwardly crude forms and spaces.

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TRAVEL: 1984, 1994,



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Notre Dame du Haut, as seen from it's most advantageous angle, Ronchamp, France, 1994.



"Rear" view, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1984.



Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1994.



A normally unphotographed angle, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1994.



Detail showing a rain spout and one of the "towers", Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1994.



Me, next to one of the more noteable details of a rain spout, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1994.
(Photo by Wyatt Chambelin)



Detail, Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, France, 1984.



Notre Dame du Haut sitting on the hill above the village, Ronchamp, France, 1994.




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