The Swaminarayan complex is a building that can be read almost like a book; it relates a narrative and speaks to users and visitors much as early cathedrals once spoke to Christians. The iconography here is not about heaven and hell, however, reward and retribution, but about peace and pleasure.
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This unique combination of ancient techniques and modern technology, which complement one another much more naturally than one might expect, allowed the complex to be finished in record time.
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What's interesting here is how decoration isn't
applied to the building, but how it
becomes the building.
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Things won't change overnight, but don't forget, first we shape our buildings, and then they shape us.
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