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Priory of St. Mary and St. Louis
Architect: HOK
1962
500 South Mason Road - west County
Three tiers of successively
smaller concrete arches form the body of the church, which sits like a
crown atop its wooded hilltop site. Within, a gentle flood of diffuse
light enters a large, open space with no columns or obstructions. The
volume of the space and the sculptural structure of the building are
all the decoration it requires.
Details include an organ by Gregor Hradetzky of
Austira, and beautiful screens of lightly tinted, hand-made Bavarian
glass panels. Much of the original artwork was designed under the
guidance of Emil
Frei, Jr. in the years following the building's completion.
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