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Barcelona’s unfinished Sagrada Familia church has agreed to pay $41 million to city authorities after it was found to be lacking a building permit — despite breaking ground on construction 136 years ago.
London church buildings – new photos: including Commonwealth Church, south east of Regent’s Park area, St Marylebone Parish Church and St George’s Hanover Square in Mayfair.
Steyn Studio drew poetic inspiration from Psalm 36:7, the crisp white form is conceived as a lightweight, and dynamic structure which appears to float within the valley: Bosjes Chapel building design, Witzenberg District, Western Cape, South Africa
St Paul’s Cathedral building from 1675-1710, designed by architect Sir Christopher Wren: exhibition to mark the 300th anniversary of the death of the mathematician, astronomer, physicist, anatomist, and one of Britain’s greatest architects
American religious buildings – interesting contemporary US church buildings, images, architects, American churches – best new US religious architecture, United States designs.
Film of a chapel for Ripon Theological College designed by Niall McLaughlin Architects – ‘a clearing to gather in the light’: the sense of looking into an illuminated clearing goes back to the earliest churches
Artist Jiang Sheng commissioned TEAM_BLDG to design a Buddha altar for his new studio and exhibition space “The Field” in China. For the architecture, light introduces interplay among people
Gurudwara Nirmal Kutiya, Jalandhar, Punjab, northern India building design by Space Race Architects wins WA Award, 34th Cycle for realized category: visited by pilgrims with faith in Sikhism from across the globe
The Scheidtweiler family came into contact with Peter Zumthor when he was building the Kolumba diocesan art museum in Cologne. The chapel was consecrated on May 19, 2007 by Cologne Auxiliary Bishop Heiner Koch
Saint Mary’s College High School Student Chapel, Albany, California building design by Mark Cavagnero Associates: sleekly articulated white concrete building serves as campus focal point
World reacts to Turkey reconverting Hagia Sophia into a mosque: the former patriarchal basilica was converted into a museum by the Republic of Turkey in 1935. Byzantine architecture for the Eastern Orthodox Church: largest cathedral in the world for almost a thousand years.
Abrahamic Family House Abu Dhabi, UAE: As part of global initiative to promote peace, Higher Committee of Human Fraternity unveils design by architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE
Simplicity, tranquillity and calm were design qualities the nuns most strongly valued. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios Architects felt an orthogonal plan would be most successful, providing restful vistas and axes, with a courtyard as the central focus.
H2R DESIGN was invited to bring HOB – a unique luxury shopping destination in Dalma Mall, Abu Dhabi – to life, through design.
Design: Rafael de La-Hoz, architects. The theoretical concept comes from the holiness of the Quran itself in which the book is never to touch the ground but to be lifted by one’s hands or placed on a base.
This 70sqm wooden chapel was built for the Belarusian diaspora community in the UK. Designed by Spheron Architects, the timber is a reminder of the loss of many wooden Belarusian settlements. The undulating timber frill of the flank walls energises the exterior.
