Ronchamp | Notre Dame de Haut and Le Corbusier

Famed architect Le Corbusier designed Notre Dame de Haut, Ronchamp.This modernist church in eastern France near the Swiss border in 1953 to replace a chapel that had been destroyed there during World War II. Although the walls are more than ten feet thick, the Corbusier-designed stained glass windows and the gap between the roof and the tops of the walls bring plenty of light into the space.