Tag Churches & Cemeteries

27-07-2021

Form4 Architecture unveils design for Intertwined Eternities, a columbarium in Aptos, California

The Form4 Architecture studio has recently challenged itself with a project characterised by a strong evocative value: Intertwined Eternities, a columbarium designed for the Episcopal Church of St. John the Baptist in Aptos, California. A project where architecture and nature "intertwine” to reach a state of perfect balance and where the design gestures of the columbarium are meant to hold the living in a metaphorical embrace. Accommodated by the fluid geometry of the architecture and accompanied by natural light and the surrounding landscape, visitors find solace to soothe the sense of loss of their loved ones.

17-06-2021

Farewell to Gottfried Böhm, forerunner of contemporary sacred architecture

German architect Gottfried Böhm has passed away on June 9 in Cologne, at the age of 101. Born with art in his veins – his father Dominikus was also a well-known architect – and Pritzker Prize winner in 1986, Gottfried Böhm was a prominent architect of Germany’s postwar reconstruction. Böhm is the author of numerous public and private buildings, as well as of over sixty churches, some of which rank among the most important examples of 20th century sacred architecture. Among these, the best known is certainly the Sanctuary of Mary Queen of Peace built in Neviges, in Germany, and considered the architect’s masterpiece.

04-11-2020

Atelier Štěpán: Church of the Blessed Maria Restituta, Brno

The Church of the Blessed Maria Restituta in Lesná, Brno, is the latest addition to a masterplan begun more than 50 years ago. Standing in the middle of a housing development in Rationalist style, Atelier Štěpán’s project is a civic and religious centre that brings the historic project up to date.

10-09-2020

Belarusian Memorial Chapel by Spheron Architects

The first wooden house of worship built after the great fire in London in 1666 is a small chapel designed by Spheron Architects for the Belarusian community in North London to commemorate the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. This intimate, inviting architecture is a thoughtful blend of traditional and contemporary design.

27-08-2020

Piercy & Company Drayton Green Church London

London design studio Piercy & Company has forged a solid reputation for their sensitive, contextual approach to significant, listed historic buildings and their surroundings. With the project for the new church for Drayton Green in West London, for the first time, the architects worked on the construction of a civic building which is a reference point for the growing community.

30-01-2020

EAA Emre Arolat Architecture Sancaklar Mosque in Istanbul, the essence of a place of worship

Sancaklar Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey, built by EAA-Emre Arolat Architecture and selected for the "RIBA Award for International Excellence" in 2018, offers a contemporary vision of the place of worship, radically altering the established traditions of the construction of the place symbolising Islam.

22-04-2019

St. Pius Chapel and Prayer Garden by Eskew Dumez Ripple

The architecture firm Eskew Dumez Ripple has designed a new chapel on the St Pius campus for the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

11-04-2019

Ignazio Gardella, rationalist gems in Alessandria

During one of the open days organised by FAI – the National Trust for Italy – when the general public can visit architectural monuments that are normally off-limits, the church of the former tuberculosis sanatorium in Alessandria very first building designed by Ignazio Gardella, one of Italy's great 20th century architects Ignazio Gardella was one of Italy's most important and influential architects and designers in the 1900s but very few people are familiar with his first work - the church of the “Sanatorio Antitubercolare Vittorio Emanuele III”, the old tuberculosis sanatorium, now the “Centro Riabilitativo Polifunzionale Teresio Borsalino”, a multipurpose rehabilitation centre in the city of Alessandria, Piedmont.

30-11-2018

The long story of Alvar Aalto’s church in Riola

The church of Riola is Finish architect Alvar Aalto’s only work in Italy, the focus of a documentary film by director Roberto Ronchi and reporter Mara Corradi telling the church’s story which premiered at the sixth Milano Design Film Festival.