St. Francis de Sales Church
Michigan, United States
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St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church in Norton Shores, Michigan, is a modernist parish church designed by Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard in 1964. Distinguished by its dramatic hyperbolic paraboloid form, the structure exemplifies brutalist architecture with its bold geometric vocabulary and sculptural massing. Serving the largest parish in the Muskegon area with approximately 1,300 households, the building stands as a significant example of mid-twentieth-century religious architecture that integrates modernist design principles with ecclesiastical function.
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- church building
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- Michigan, United States
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