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ryan bessey

above: ODEON model of the underground parking lot below: the parking lot at 401 Wellington Street West,Toronto

But what of the garage, that secular, unspiritual, irreligious volume? It is an architectural accident that the parking garage also shares these religious acoustics. What is not yet known is whether we will ever re-envision garages as places of worship based on their acoustic reverberance, something that historically we have long valued. j

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paul whelan

1 Than, Ker. ‘Stone age art caves may have been concert halls’, National Geographic News , 28 October 2010

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