Chapel of St. Ignatius
Concrete chapel of seven skylit towers, each casting shifting colored light over a reflecting pool.
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This guide to the Chapel of St. Ignatius at Seattle University follows architect Steven Holl's 1994 pitch for the building, seven bottles of light in a stone box, and how each of the seven skylit towers on the roof catches Seattle's shifting daylight and bounces it through colored lenses inside. It traces the unusual way the chapel was built between 1994 and 1997, with crews casting twenty-one massive concrete slabs on the ground nearby before tilting them upright into place. Look down as well as up: a reflecting pond wraps the chapel's base, poured from the same construction as the walls themselves.
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