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Gallery > Public Buildings and Churches > Italian Cemetery Mausoleum Chapel Additional Images [BACK] |
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 Exterior view of main entrance |
Sidelight cross at entrance |
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| In 1987 this project won AIA design awards for both the architect Robert Overstreet as well as Arthur Stern Studios. This building combines leaded glass with beveled and engraved glass in a contemporary sculptural statement. The building consists of a central chapel flanked by two side bays. The three-dimensional configuration of the central entrance offers a changing perspective as one moves inside the building, allowing a view through one window to another. A 9' tall cross of cast glass floats overhead at the rear of the chamber in front of a sculptural wall of beveled and engraved plate glass. The beveled and engraved glass becomes a laminated safety glass in the overhead areas. The leaded glass in the building combines handblown glass with bronze plate glass and beveled details. | ||
 Detail above entrance |
 Side aisle |
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