The Architect · Mariana · Lisbon
Convento do Carmo
The most moving building in Lisbon. The missing roof turns Gothic structure into pure diagram against the sky.
A Gothic church left roofless by the 1755 quake — bare pointed arches open to the sky, kept as a ruin and a memorial.
— Mariana, The Architect
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