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Padre Pio pilgrimage church

Padre Pio Pilgrimage Church, Italy

Architects: Renzo Piano
Structural Engineers: Ove Arup Engineers
Completed: Under construction
Location: San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy 
Structural timberwork: Merk Holzbau GmbH & Co KG

The major challenge for a building that receives several hundred thousand pilgrims each year was creating a space that would be open and inviting. This explains why the church was given an immense but low-lying dome shape. The upper beams of the dome are laminated Larch timber.