Templo Bahá'í de Sudamérica

This guide to the Baha'i Temple of South America on a Santiago hillside follows Toronto architect Siamak Hariri's 2002 competition win among more than 180 teams from 80 countries, and his design of nine torqued glass wings meant to let daylight pass through walls that look solid from outside. It traces the years spent developing a cast glass that had never existed before, and the translucent Portuguese marble that lines the interior. Listen for how the light shifts as you move between the nine wings, each engineered to sway rather than crack in an earthquake.