the building situated in Dornach, Switzerland, that is a performance and conference centre, as well as the administrative centre for the world-wide General Anthroposophical Society. The first Goetheanum was built by volunteer international labour during the First World War, and consisted of two interlocking wooden cupolas. It was destroyed by arson on New Year’s Eve, December 31, 1922. The second, present building is formed of concrete and was completed in the late 1920s. Both buildings were designed by Rudolf Steiner and are considered among the 1000 selected classics of world architecture by www.greatbuildings.com.