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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Design: Dow Jones Architects – Wood Awards 2016 Building Shortlisted. This project redevelops the crypt at Christ Church Spitalfields, a Grade I listed building by Nicholas Hawksmoor, completed in 1729, and widely regarded as his masterpiece.
Anniversaries of two important, but still somewhat obscure Finnish Modernist architects: Timo Penttilä and Juha Leiviskä. Timo started off as “some kind of a prodigy of Finnish architecture”. Juha is one of just three architects awarded the Carlsberg prize.
Design: Matthew Lloyd Architects LLP. Frampton Park Baptist Church sits prominently in a council estate in the London Borough of Hackney, replacing a 1950’s building that was in poor condition and no longer fit for purpose.
Design: Conm + Kallesø. When seen from outside the church building rises in one continual profile from south to north. The outside of the hole church building is cladded with thin local pine trunks on all facades.
Design: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, architects. FCBS wins the design competition for the £7m renewal of the cathedral building. Work on the Grade I-listed building is to be complete by 2021 in time for the cathedral’s 600-year anniversary.
Design: Dr. Margot Krasojevic
Solar Chapel at the HoldenManz Wine Estate, Franschhoek, Cape Town. The project utilizes the same solar panel technology used on the farm to clad the expanding wedding chapel’s roof structure.