A modern chapel in the Ozarks mountains

I’m usually not a big fan of modern chapels. They rarely give me the warm feeling you can get from a Middle-Age building, probably because of the usual lack of decoration and the edgy shapes. Don’t take me wrong, I’m not against architectural experiments, but I find that it often doesn’t work for sacred buildings.

In my opinion, this chapel in the Ozarks mountains of Arkansas works quite well. The high, vertical structure blends in very good in the woods, and the general transparency must give a feeling of praying in the forest, which is pretty cool. As a catholic, I’d say that it lacks some art and saints, but the architecture itself is pretty cool.