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Simple Complex

Staff -- Interior Design, 7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

John Pawson, England's reigning maestro of minimalism, brings his pared-down aesthetic to a new monastery—the century's first—in the Czech Republic. The foundation stone for Our Lady of Novy Dvur was blessed last month, inaugurating construction on the 70,000-sq.-ft. courtyard complex, which will include living quarters, community buildings, and a church for 40 Cistercian monks. The site's 18th-century manor house is being restored and barns razed to make way for the Pawson's functional and austere structure, designed to harmonize with the surrounding landscape and to harness natural light.

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