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In addition, we post contemporary place of worship architecture projects on this international resource. Our focus is on internationally-significant architectural works related to religion.
The Leaf chapel design by Klein Dytham architecture is within the grounds of the Risonare hotel resort in Kobuchizawa. The building mimics two leaves that have fallen to the ground, one on top of the other. Thousands of holes in the leaves form the delicate image of a bridal veil.
Trinity@Paya Lebar design by ONG&ONG: the choice of colours for the façade, and the folding of the façade planes are inspired by the canyons in the Israeli deserts while the façade lighting aims to carry the narratives of nature. The animation and vibrancy of the colours used are meant to mirror the dynamism of the sky.
This modernist architecture design by Alfonso Architects combines new construction and renovation: a 25,000 sqft building forming a sanctuary, administrative offices and classrooms. Also, two existing single level buildings were renovated and the exterior space including lighting and landscape was redesigned. The architect states, “The challenge was to establish an intimate church campus by creating a new exterior courtyard that would act as a catalyst for community interaction and as the physical nexus joining new and existing buildings.”
Design: Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM). Set on a prominent, two-block site overlooking Oakland’s Lake Merritt, the 1350-seat cathedral building is the centerpiece of a 226,000-sqft complex that includes a mausoleum, conference center, administrative offices, bishop’s and clergy residences, bookstore, café, and community-serving ministries.
Within the cathedral, the experience of light and space, rather than traditional iconography, instills a deep sense of sacredness.
Design: BNKR Arquitectura. Some customers visited La Estaancia Chapel and contacted us to make a private chapel on their weekend`s house at Cuernavaca. They wanted an Ecumenical Chapel, a non-religious chapel, a chapel to meditate. They also liked La Estancia Chapel, but they wanted something more discreet.
Roskilde Cathedral Building, Religious Architecture Denmark, Sjælland Roskilde Domkirke : Cathedral Building in Denmark Danish Architecture Developments in Zealand 10 Jan 2014 Roskilde Cathedral Architecture Design: Various Location: Sjælland, east Denmark, close to Copenhagen Roskilde Domkirke (Roskilde Cathedral) in the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand (Sjælland) in eastern Denmark, is a cathedral … Read more
Hollwich Kushner (HWKN) makes one minor tweak to “T’rumah”, the detailed plans laid out in the Bible for the Holy Tabernacle. Turning it vertical is the only way to squeeze the Tabernacle into the world’s second biggest Jewish city.
In the design of Bible House, we similarly divided the site into 2 main zones and facade treatments. During the old testament era, people were governed in their faith, by a law.
It is requested to draft a project for a building destined for the Catholic worship, in the type of a chapel or an hermitage dedicated to Saint John the Baptist.
Atelier Kempe Thill in collaboration with BBZ landscape architects has recently won the invited international competition for the revitalization / development of Kappel Monastery near Zürich / Switzerland.
The Gasulhana, Hatme & Mevlud Central Building is designed to be a place where deceased is taken care of in a religious sense, the place greeting and serving friends when they express condolence, the place of religious prayer of the deceased.
sanzpont [arquitectura] are an architecture firm located in Mexico and Spain. This is their latest project, the 2nd place winner of the competition for Cancun City Basilica, Santa Maria del Mar.
The center design by Fernandez-Abascal y Muruzabal + Ortiz y Barrientos, located in the extension of Unquera, is aligned to a road in the base of the mountain which characterizes and darkens the plot.
The present domed building was erected to the designs of architect Sir Christopher Wren following the destruction of its medieval predecessor in the Great Fire of London in 1666.
The Kamppi Chapel is located on the south side of the busy Narinkka square in central Helsinki. It offers a place to quiet down and compose oneself in one of Finland most lively urban spaces.
Design: Daniel Bonilla Arquitectos
The chapel in la Calera has a basic geometry that tries to alter the territory as little as possible. It uses the natural features of the environment, the wind and the light, to create an essential harmony.
Los Nogales School’s Chapel, is conceived based on human life’s dualities. A pure and elemental prism represents the pureness, the essential and the harmony