L'Église St Joseph and Auguste Perret, Le Havre, Seine-Maritime (76)

L'Église St Joseph was built after the destruction of the third church of the same name after the bombardments of the Second World War by the rebuilder of Le Havre, Auguste Perret. Perret wanted this to be not just a reconstruction but a spiritual lighthouse, a monument to the memory of those who died in the war. The concrete church took from October 1951 to October 1957 to be built, and Perret needed a woman to be responsible for designing the immense number of glass lights: that woman was Marguerite Huré, and L'Église St Joseph is a splendour to see. The actual ground space is small, but the height is dizzying.