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Luce Memorial Chapel, Taichung, Taiwan, 1963 designed by I.M. Pei

Set on an irregular hexagonal base, the chapel occupies a site of 12,000 square meters of the campus, providing 477 square meters of floor area, including a nave with 500 seats, a chancel and robing rooms. The four manipulated planes that make up the walls of the church stretch 19.2m high, establishing a central focal landmark on the campus.  -- ArchDaily

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The Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco, California, USA, 1971 designed by Pietro Belluschi and Pier-Luigi Nervi

The hyperbolic paraboloid creates a graceful flow upwards until it reaches 190 feet where the four corners meet in a cross. The cathedral measures 255 square feet and is crowned with a 55 foot tall golden cross at its apex. -- ArchDaily

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San Josemaría Escrivá Church, Lomas de Santa Fe Alvaro Obregón, Mexico City, México, 2008 designed by Javier Sordo Madaleno Bringas

The architects began developing the architectural concept with geometrical strokes and enrolling in the repetition of the 7 golden rectangle, two curves referring to the Christian fish symbol and raised these curves with straight lines to a diagonal in the rectangle forming the cross of light, facing north.  -- ArchDaily

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The Santuary of Santa Paulina, Nova Trento, SC, Brazil designed by HS Arquitetos

Icon of religious building, the coverage ascending lines stimulates the search for spirituality and meditation, like a mantle, launched candidly about building houses the main nave, chapels and support area, and defines access to the sanctuary. -- ArchDaily