Architects: Gerhard Sacher, Sacher Locicero Architectes Construction company: Petautschnig Bau GmbH - Murau, Knafl&Co St:Veit a.d.Glan Civil engineer: Pittino Windows: Karl-Heinz Simonitsch
This small family chapel in rural Austria has a white concrete shell and glass gable walls, allowing views right through the building to the rolling countryside beyond (+ slideshow).
Slabs of cast concrete form the floor, pitched roof and side walls of the chapel, while its glazed gables give the building a hollow appearance. The glass walls frame views of the vineyard and the forested slopes of nearby hills.
A bronze cross by Czech artist Jaromír Gargulák stands in front of one gable, while a pair of double doors that he also designed open from the other into a gravelled forecourt.
"The immaculate, smoothly formed white concrete provides this piece of architecture with a special, artificial-like aesthetics and purity," said Sacher.
Photography is by Paul Ott unless specified otherwise
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