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Religious · Late modernism

Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption

Pietro Belluschi and Pier Luigi Nervi · San Francisco, United States · 1971

Key featuresFour hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shells rise from a square base to meet in a cross of glass.

Architect
Pietro Belluschi and Pier Luigi Nervi
Place
San Francisco, United States
Year
1971
Typology
Religious
Movement
Late modernism
Region
Americas
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