Scheidtweiler has created a building that will attract as many architects and their students as it will Catholic pilgrims. Yet, if Zumthor’s elemental building causes visitors to be silent for just a while, it will have achieved at least one of its ends. Here is one of those physical still points in the turning world that, in an era of razzmatazz architecture, can be hard to find.

@ Guardian (via Hermitary)

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