Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp is one of the most important works of 20th-century architecture — a radical pilgrimage chapel designed by Le Corbusier in 1955 whose sweeping white concrete roof (said to be inspired by a crab shell), irregularly shaped windows of coloured glass, and organically curved walls broke every rule of traditional […]
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