Article source: Tomas Ghisellini Architects 

The new church of Cinisi will be an unforgettable and extraordinary physical icon, a translation of the feeling of its origins: a large family of wiry stems, like a cloud of souls, a crowd of people huddled together, lives on site thickening around an ideally aggregating center. The progressive thickening of the elements culminates into a dense and compact architectural core, the proper body of the church, in which the stems seem about to dive or from which, depending on interpretation, seem to have been carved out.

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• Architects: Tomas Ghisellini Architects 
• Project: LIVING STONES
• Location: Cinisi PA, Italy
• Design Team: Alice Marzola
• Collaborators: Lucrezia Alemanno, Andrea Andreotti, Nicola Cataldo, Alessio Orlando
• Client: CEI-Conferenza Episcopale Italiana, Arcidiocesi di Monreale
• Area: 8755.0 sqm
• Project Year: 2015

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