The cathédrale du Sacré-Cœur replaced the nineteenth-century cathedral of St. Philip. The cathedral is positioned on a hill in the centre of Algiers. It is approached via a series of steps and terraces and has a square ground plan. It is entirely co…
Year: 1955
Sugden House
The developer was an engineer who worked for Ove Arup. The house does not disguise the coarse construction work on the inside, either: wood and brick. On the outside, it is also “modernist” (the refined industrial window profiles), “traditional”…
El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya
“El Helicoide de la Roca Tarpeya” in Caracas, Venezuela, would have been a spiral drive-in mall. Built between 1956 and 1960, El Helicoide’s construction flattened the hill “La Roca Tarpeya” into seven gradually decreasing terraces, surro…
Basilica of Saint Pius X
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Centre Albert-Camus (today Larbi Tebessi)
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Istituto Marchiondi Spagliardi
Viganò planned this gated institution for delinquent youths on the basis of a new pedagogic concept. Order is demonstrated by the building’s readily comprehensible inner logic and also by the fact that the materials used are plain to see and the pipi…