A flower in the desert made of 700 cubic meters of Bianco Carrara.There is an Apuan stone giant like Furrer behind the project that is under construction in Akka, Israel.For the sanctuary of 'Abdu'l Baha, the House of Universal Justice, the highest authority of the Bahá'í community, has chosen to rely on a great architect such as the Iranian-Canadian Hossein Amanat and on his project that he has in the marble of our mountains its distinctive feature.The leader of this huge construction site is the Vicenza-based marble company Margraf which has decided to rely on the Furrer of the Mazzi family for the material.The project includes 16 gigantic petals in White Carrara marble, each 24 meters long, 10 wide and 5 high, which will dominate the central body of the building with a diameter of 55 meters, supported by 11 pillars 11 meters high for a total , as mentioned, of 700 cubic meters of processed material."This unique domed landscape garden is inspired by Master 'Abdu'l-Bahá's love for gardens, according to his desire to be buried in the sand between Haifa and Akka - reads the Margraf website - The circular garden of 166 meters in diameter by 14 in height, it is located in a larger garden. In the center the sanctuary building, surrounded by an external preparatory space, covered by a trellis, covered in domed marble. From the central sanctuary they develop in a radial pattern a series of paths leading to the garden, creating a motif inspired by traditional Persian domed architecture ".Although the main structure of the building is made of concrete, Bianco Carrara marble with a thickness of 6 centimeters was chosen to clad the building and the trellis, with a mechanical anchoring system designed to measure to secure the pieces of large size."The vertical walls of the sanctuary - add from the Vicenza company - are covered with 2.1 meter marble elements cut as if they were the fold of a cloth. To create the ceiling motif, 5 diamond-shaped openings are repeated, radially 16 times. Three rows of openings are covered by skylights, while the two largest rows of openings, external, are open to the sky "."The temple must be different from any other building - says Hossein Amanat on the Margraf website - It represents the values ​​of 'Abdu'l-Bahá towards all people, altruism, wisdom, openness, acceptance and kindness ".Councilor Filippo Bedini denounces: "New devastating raid of vandal writings against the authorities"Do you already have an account?Log in