Sometimes all you have to do is look at the rendering. Words can obfuscate, but the picture is often remarkably clear. That's certainly the case with Ave Maria, the Catholic university and adjoining town funded to the tune of $250 million by Domino's Pizza founder Tom Monaghan, currently under construction near Naples, Florida. Metropolis
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"According to Hill, of EDAW, the town's grid is several degrees off a typical east-west orientation. It's lined up with the path the sun travels on the Feast of the Annunciation. The whole town, in other words, is configured to commemorate the day the church says Jesus was conceived."
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