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Trenton
Bath House
Trenton
1955

As Kahn has said – nobody owns the cube, the square, the circle or any other geometrical form. But here, Louis Kahn came to understand his personal code as an architect. It seems to mean both openness and reticence, revealing and protecting. Designed with the help of his associate, the renowned architect Anne Tyng.

Photographs by Arne Maasik 2016

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