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Babyn Yar Synagogue, ‘The architectural response to the Holocaust’, architect Manuel Herz observes, ‘has been concrete and stone, as if the architecture has to be as heavy as the crime’.

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Looking into the ceiling showing the star constell

Looking into the ceiling showing the star constellation of the night of the Babyn Yar massacre.

This is the architectural response by Manuel Herz @manuel.herz to the 1941 atrocity in the Babyn Yar ravine. He chose wood to create a gloriously decorated building constructed out of old oak sourced from across Ukraine, purposely chosen to reinforce the importance of memory. The design team explained that the synagogue, completed in May 2021;

‘unfolds into three dimensions. From a flat object of a book, when we open it, new worlds unfold, that we could not imagine before. In a sense, the pop-up book can act as a metaphor for the Synagogue’.

In September 1941 the Nazi occupiers of Ukraine and their collaborators forced 34,000 naked men, women and children to a ravine just outside Kyiv, where they were shot. The bodies, the dead and the injured, fell into the pit to be covered by more and more bodies. This was a two-day affair, one of the massacres comprising the “Holocaust by Bullets” preceding the attempted industrial destruction of Europe’s Jews by gas.

Image Iwan Baan @iwanbaan ©

Basilica Catedral Nuestra Senora de Altagracia, Hi

Basilica Catedral Nuestra Senora de Altagracia, Higüey Dominican Republic.
Designed by French architects Jacques - André Dunoyer de Segonzac and Pierre Dupre 1959. Anyone want to have a go at describing it! Photo with thanks to @tropical.brutalism

To many British, at least, church architecture is

To many British, at least, church architecture is typically gothic; is a brutalist church appropriate? This is Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Florence, architect Giovanni Michelucci 1960-64. Image with thanks to @misterngo

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