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								  |  | Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angeli 
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                                    | reinforced concrete, stone Concrete structure, porphyry quoin facing, roof of prefabricated terraced cement, damp-proofed and faced with porphyry slabs.
 
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| ARCHITECTURE  |  | Religious buildings Churches and places of worship |  |   
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        | THE BUILDING IN CINEMA |  |  |  |  |  |   
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								    | Tamaro. Pietre e angeli. Mario Botta e Enzo Cucchi									  									[Tamaro] |  |  
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        | BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |  |  |  |  |  |   
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                                    | Fulvio Irace, Dimenticare Vitruvio. Temi, figure e paesaggi dell'architettura contemporanea, IlSole 24 Ore, Milano 2001, pp. 177-180 [da Il Sole 24 Ore, 16 ottobre 1994] |  
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                                    | Giovanni Pozzi, Mario Botta. Santa Maria degli Angeli sul Monte Tamar  o, Casagrande Edizioni, Bellinzona 2001 tr. ger.: Mario Botta. Heilige Maria der Engel auf dem monte Tamaro, Casagrande Edizioni, Bellinzona 2002
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                                    | Mercedes Daguerre, Graziella Zannone Milan, Architetture nel territorio. Architektur im Gelände, Architecture in the territory, Architectures dans le territoire. Canton Ticino 1970-2000 [CD-ROM], Tarmac sa, Mendrisio 2001 |  
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                                    | EcoEnea 1 (supplemento a/supplement of L'Arca 121, dicembre/december 1997), p. 5 (3-5) |  
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                                    | Enzo Cucchi (drawings), Domus 795, luglio-agosto/july-august 1997 [Durabilità/Durability], "Progetti/Projects" pp. 11-13 (11-21) Barbara Fassoni, "La cappella di S. Maria degli Angeli al Monte Tamaro, Ticino/The Chapel of St Mary of the Angels at mount Tamaro, Ticino", Domus 795, luglio-agosto/july-august 1997 [Durabilità/Durability], "Progetti/Projects" pp. 14-21 (11-21)
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                                    | "Mario Botta. Un ponte verso la valle: Cappella di Santa Maria degli Angeli al Monte Tamaro", Casabella 640-641, dicembre 1996-gennaio 1997/december 1996-january 1997, pp. 118-123 Giovanni Pozzi, "Una litania dipinta", Casabella 640-641, dicembre 1996-gennaio 1997/december 1996-january 1997, p. 122 (118-123)
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                                    |  "Mario Botta. Cappella del Monte Tamaro, Rivera, Cantone Ticino, Svizzera / Chapel of Mount Tamaro, Rivera, Ticino Canton , Switzerland" in Vincenzo Pavan (ed.), Pietra su pietra. Premio Internazionale Architetture di Pietra / Stone on stone. International Award Architecture in Stone, Faenza Editrice, Faenza, 1995, pp. 107-127 |  
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                                    | AA.VV., Mario Botta, Enzo Cucchi. La cappella del Monte Tamaro / The Chapel of Monte Tamaro, Umberto Allemandi & C., Torino 1994 |  |  
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                                    | Egidio Cattaneo, Monte Tamaro SA |  |   
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                                    | chapel sq.m. 184 run sq.m. 150
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                                    | Enzo Cucchi (frescoes and tiles) |  |  
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                                    | Paolo Merzaghi, Massimo Moreni, Dominique Sganzini |  |  
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                                    | Dedication to Santa Maria degli Angeli on September 1, 1996. It is reached by means of a cableway that departs from the town of Rivera and climbs up to 1500 m on the Alpe Foppa.
 Motorway exit Rivera/Monte Ceneri.
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                                    | Photos by Stefan Kern, Oliver Wupper-Schweers 
 
 
 
 
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