Image Credit: John Pawson Architects

I'm really ecstatic to have found this project. Just last night, as I was flipping through a book full of Vincent van Duysen's work, his design sensibility and vision reminded me of this particular project.

I chanced upon this project in a design magazine many years ago, probably when I was still in elementary school. I can't say exactly why I remember it so well, but perhaps it is the monastery's austere and minimalism that really captured me.

Rediscovering this project tonight felt almost like a sense of awakening to me - I suspect that its because this was one of the first pieces of [quality] modern architecture that I chanced upon.