The Colline Notre Dame du Haut is located in France and was built in 1955. The Colline is still a working religious building today and is under guardianship. The Colline was actually built on remains of a chapel that was destroyed by bombs in a war. The church is mainly composed of stone and cement. Daylight is allowed in the church by small openings covered in either clear or colored glass. Corbusier did not like that gothic style of stained glass, so the colored glass in the church is glazed and is still see through. The chapel was the first to use the technique of having panels of sheet steel be enameled in vivid colors at 760 degrees celsius. Along that same wall, there is an intense red that fades into a violet wall. I like this piece of work because it doesn’t look like any chapel I have ever seen. Usually Catholic churches are all done in the same style and it is easy to see a building and know that it is a church, especially if it is Catholic. I like the smooth lines of and roundness of the Colline. Also, the whole building looks cohesive but at the same time the back of the church is not what I thought it would look like.

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