Our Lady of The Fields in Boston
This conceptual cathedral building designed by young architect Stanislas Chaillou, in the park of Dorchester Heights, South Boston, MA, addresses intertwined dimensions of ecology and faith.
Rediscover Lemay: 60 Years of Visionary Design
As Lemay celebrates 60 years of groundbreaking design, a review of some its most defining projects. Montreal-based architecture, planning and design firm a success story: employs +400 people, has won hundreds of awards.
Church of St. Wenceslas in Sazovice
Church of St. Wenceslas in Sazovice is a modern rotunda: contemporary architecture built on conservative principles from Moravian architectural office Atelier Štěpán.
St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City: Building
Eight events show how this chapel truly is an iconic New York City building by architect Thomas McBean. St. Paul’s Chapel celebrated its 250th anniversary last year. The chapel in lower Manhattan was once the tallest building in New York City.
Pastoral Center of Moscavide Building
From the need to serve multiple functions, the Pastoral Center of Moscavide building design by Plano Humano Arquitectos is composed by a set of facilities that include catechesis rooms, funeral chapels, and the parish residence, and these needs.
Church Buildings in The Philippines
Sacred spaces: Philippines religious buildings by architecture practiceCAZA (Carlos Arnaiz Architects) including 100 Walls Church in Cebu, La Salle Church in Laguna and Marian Church.
St Martin-in-the-Fields Church London
Eric Parry Architects’ renewal of St-Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square, London is one of only two UK projects to be awarded a European Union Prize for Cultural Heritage / Europa Nostra Award.
San Giovanni Battista di Castenas, Chiesa di Bologna
Contemporary Italian religious Architecture – lighting article about a new church complex in the province of Bologna: the construction of the new church and aell tower,
Stella Maris Chapel in Tenerife, El Pris Building
Design: Architect Alejandro Beautell. For years, the neighbors of the fishermen village of El Pris had tried to promote the construction of a proper temple, under the vocation of the Virgen del Carmen (Our Lady of Mount Carmel) who is patroness of the sailors.
San Paolo Parish Complex of Foligno, Italy
Design: Massimiliano Fuksas Architecture. “The suspension of a volume within another. See the sky through the concrete, outside, inside, outside”, Massimiliano Fuksas, architect.
St. Trinitatis Church in Leipzig, Saxony Building
Design: Schulz und Schulz. This building was awarded the Best Church of the Year, one of the prestigious World Architecture Festival Awards 2016: the building has a central public space with an “ingenious concept”.
Camberwell Grammar School Chapel in Melbourne
Design: Peter Crone Architects. As part of Camberwell Grammar School’s recent campus development, AR-MA worked with ARC Roofing, Cockram Construction, and Peter Crone Architects on the technical design of the school’s new chapel.
New Church in Sydhavnen, Copenhagen
Design: JAJA Architects. Because of the fast population growth in the Copenhagen city area Sydhavnen, the first new church in 27 years will serve both cultural and church activities for the growing number of inhabitants.
Filamentary Chapel in Jalisco, México
Design: Di Vece Arquitectos and Francisco Morales Dufour. The concept is to create a processional scheme, a peripheral pathway around the building that promotes an introspective process in preparation for the religious ceremony and for a personal spiritual seclusion.
Sydhavnen Church Copenhagen
Design: Architects of Invention. This design proposes a church with a vertical emphasis, creating a distilled space for religious ceremonies, and an accessible venue for the community to participate in a wide range of activities both day and night.
Chapel Maria Magdalena in Zollfeld
Design: Sacher.Lociciero.Architectes
A spectacular sculptural object made of white concrete (SCC – self-compacting concrete). A building of an exceptional, timeless spaciousness. Family ceremonies and festivities take place with tranquillity and contemplation.
The Light at Friends House, Euston Road
Design: John McAslan + Partners. One of the most striking elements of the scheme is the reconfigured internal volume, now named ‘The Light’, topped with a vast, dramatic roof-light, flooding the Meeting House with daylight.
Knarvik Church – Lindås Building, Norway
Design: Reiulf Ramstad Architects – RRA. The church building signals its function with dignity and recognizable form, where the church spire, sanctuary and chapel are emphasized by the ascending roof planes.
Luoyuan Protestant Church China Building
Design: INUCE Architecture Design Urbanism
Luoyuan is a rapidly growing city by the coast of Fujian, a Chinese province famous for its tea production, its Hakka ethnic minority and their distinct ring-shaped residential architecture, the so called Fujian-Tulou.
Spectacular Church Architecture Designs
Angular, asymmetrical, colorful and just plain extraordinary, there are modern churches that will have one looking in vain for a traditional steeple. All around the world, architects are designing ever more eye-catching houses of worship – chapels and synagogues whose shapes and colors aim to impress visitors
