Architect: Rudolf Steiner
Size: 110,000 m³
Date: 1928
Use: Centre for Anthroposophical Society
Location: Dornach, Switzerland
Population: 6,375
The architecture of the Goetheanum is based on philosopher and esoteric Rudolf Steiner’s anthroposophic principles, inspired by the spiritual world rather than abstract theory.
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)
(Photo courtesy De La Warr Pavilion)
Architects: Erich Mendelsohn and Serge Chermayeff
Size: 4,000 m²
Date: 1935
Use: Public Entertainment Hall
Location: Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
Population: 41,173
One of the first modernist buildings in England was built in a little seaside town. The De La Warr Pavilion celebrated its 75th anniversary by recreating a photograph published by the Daily Mirror in 1936.
(Photo: Sheila Burnett)
Architect: Unknown
Size: 58,064 m²
Date: 2001
Use: Maximum security prison
Location: Thomson, Illinois, USA
Population: 590
This private maximum security prison was built for 1,600 inmates – three times the size of the local population. Although it closed in 2010, it is now the centre of a controversial debate over a proposal to rehouse Guantanamo Bay prisoners there.
(Illustration by Madalena Boavida Guerra)
Architect: Chalermchai Kositpipat
Size: Under construction
Date: 1997 - ongoing
Use: Buddhist temple
Location: Chiang Rai, Thailand
Population: 67,176
The White Temple mixes elements of traditional Thai Buddhist art with contemporary imagery. The interior murals include an apocalyptic battle scene involving spaceships, Spiderman, and George W. Bush.
(Photo: Kyle Peirson)
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