UNESCO Headquarters Entrance Canopy — Breuer, Nervi & Zehrfuss, Paris 1958 unesco-headquarters-entrance-canopy-nervi-paris-1958 The hyperbolic-paraboloid concrete entry canopy of the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, designed by Marcel Breuer, Pier Luigi Nervi, and Bernard Zehrfuss and completed in 1958. Nervi's structural engineering defines the sweeping saddle-shell canopy shown here against the Y-shaped Secretariat curtain wall.
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Saint-Joseph Church, Le Havre, by Auguste Perret saint-joseph-church-le-havre-auguste-perret Interior of the Église Saint-Joseph, Le Havre, designed by Auguste Perret (1951–1957). The 107-metre concrete tower is filled with Marguerite Huré's abstract stained glass in fifty hues.
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