This futuristic forest chapel looks very stylish and at the same time fits perfectly into the natural landscape. The Thorncrown Chapel is located in the Ozark Mountains , in the town of Eureca-Springs, Arkansas - and many associate with the buildings of fairy elves. Architect E. Fay Jones, a student of Frank Lloyd Wright, popularizer of Prairie School, built Crown of Thorns Chapel, taking advantage of the materials available in the local wilderness to the north. -western state - primarily a tree. The nave of the chapel reaches a height of 14.63 meters. The whole structure from a distance looks like it has no walls at all, but it is not. There are just 425 windows in this chapel - to glaze them all, it took nearly six hundred square meters of glass. In sunny weather, these windows let in so much light that additional lighting is not required (although it is provided here). The roof support structures are perfectly symmetrical and are an important part of the interior. It is interesting that the chapel, built in 1980, in 2000 already managed to receive the status of a national historical site (National Historic Site) and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. This is very atypical for the United States, where it usually takes at least half a century of the existence of a building or other object for the question of assigning it to such a status to even begin to be considered. However, given Fay Jones' innovative approach to architecture and design, an exception was made for the Crown of Thorns Chapel. In a relatively short period of its existence, this chapel has received many awards in the field of architecture, including the very prestigious 'Twenty-Five Year Award' in 2006. The Crown of Thorns Chapel is made in the Art Nouveau style, and at the same time it is a wonderful example of modern 'organic architecture', striving to merge with nature, without dissolving in it. Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the unusual chapel from the Arkansas wilderness every year. With all this, the building in Eureka Springs is not an art object, but a functioning Christian chapel, where services are regularly held. V. Sergienko
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