Award-winning New York architect David Hotson reinterprets 1,400 year-old armenian traditions for the renovation of the Saint Sarkis Church in Carrollton, Texas.
The ancient architectural and artistic traditions are mixed with contemporary, digitally controlled design and production technologies: the stunning façade features 1.5 million individual pixels, each representing the victims of the Armenian Genocide of 1915.
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