When two become one: Ribbon Chapel

[ad_1] Photography: Koji Fujii/ Nacasa& Partners Inc; courtesy the architect  . A wedding chapel in Japan borrows its name from a pair of seemingly entwined spiral staircases... Tokyo-based architect Hiroshi Nakamura has designed a wedding chapel located midway on a hill in the garden of the Bella Vista Sakaigahama resort in Onomichi, Hiroshima. . . The 80 sq. m. chapel mirrors the act of marriage both architecturally and metaphorically. Like the twists and turns of life, the self-standing outer and inner staircases undulate before they unite at 15.4 m. to form a single ribbon. They also allow the bride and […]