The Church of Sant Esteve, located at the eastern end of the Barcelona municipality of Marganell, sharing its grounds with a cemetery, retains much of its Romanesque structure despite all the looting, fires, and revamps it has undergone over the cent
Declared an Asset of Cultural Interest in 1978, the Chruch of Santa Ana de Carmona is part of a group of 16th-century religious buildings. In 1975, the single-nave temple with a Latin cross plan fell into disuse and its two roofs (Mudejar and Baroque
The Slovenian architecture firm Medprostor – founded by Jerneja Fischer Knap, Rok Žnidaršič, and Samo Mlakar – carried out this intervention that included a movable, foldable roof to preserve the remains of the Romanesque church of the Carthusian mon
Located on the outskirts of Granada, in the Almanjáyar neighborhood, this church presents a jagged profile with seven skylights on a sawtooth roof projecting a play of lights and colors inside. Developed over a span of fourteen years, the project aim
This church built in concrete is located on the edge of EPIA (Park Road of Industry and Supply), a major component of the radio-centric thoroughfare system implemented to support the architect Lucio Costa’s Pilot Project. EPIA later became an express
On Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, the Abrahamic Family House headquarters has been inaugurated. It embodies the historical bonds linking three Abrahamic religions – Judaism , Christianity, and Islam – and provides a platform for dialogue and coexisten
The new church reconstructs a hillock that was located behind the second city wall of the 17th century, now disappeared. The old pit will be cleaned and emptied out to facilitate the formwork process of the future structure. The geometric halls of th
The development of Saadiyat Island on Abu Dhabi’s northern coast is an ambitious tourist and cultural push to create a new center in the UAE capital. Besides various commercial and residential operations, the plan includes raising eight outposts of f
island of Hokkaido, in northern Japan. On a plain surrounded by mountain ranges and a dense forest of beech trees and shrubs, the building comprises two superposed cubes, a rectangular artificial lake, and a long L-shaped wall enclosing the complex.
A parish center located in the very heart of Calabria presents solutions for an architecture that is loaded with references but does not forget to incorporate sustainable mechanisms. The temple is fitted into a sinuous white volume around which the S
The open and organic architecture of the parish marks a contrast with the heavy and compact center of the city with a radially undulating roof that reinterprets the archetypal form of Romanesque and Gothic aisles through nature.
Since the closure, for security reasons, of the old Alcalá Church – finally demolished in 2011 – the neighbors have been determined to rebuild it. In response to this social demand, the Parish of Candelaria, the Bishopric, the regional Government, an
Working out of offices in Berlin, Beijing, and Shanghai, the practice of Ziyu Zhuang took on this project in Qingdao. Located within the Zangma Mountain Tourism Resort, it is a reinterpretation of traditional church architecture, maintaining elements
What Prussian howitzers did not manage to do has been achieved by fallow land. If the Great War temporarily deprived Lampernisse of its church, today’s exodus from the countryside has emptied the temple – reconstructed in the 1920s com’era – of faith
A small space for prayer rises amid hundred-year-old oak trees and becomes a visual reference in the expansive Manchegan landscape where a large rural estate is located. Situated not far from the new residence of its owners, the chapel is the result
Designed by the Mexican firm WRKSHP, with Rigoberto Almaguer at the helm, the church for the Fuego Nuevo congregation is located in Monterrey's El Uro neighborhood. It draws its rhythm from an interplay of solids and voids that lets daylight in. With
The project to build a church is set forth as an opportunity to favor social cohesion in the area. The massive volume is divided into thirteen sections, each different in program, and the circulation within the enclosure is inspired by that of old ch
The Evangelical Protestant Church’s new headquarters in Stuttgart occupies the site of a 15th-century Dominican monastery destroyed in World War II and makes its remnants part of it. The complex replaces the disjointed postwar reconstruction and crea
The old church of Santa Eulàlia in Gironella was built in the mid-14th century and since then it has been repurposed several times. In 1907 the building acquired a civil use and suffered a series of alterations derived from its different activities –
To build a church within a church: this was the intention of Wutopia Lab for one of Shanghai’s most emblematic bookstores. The first church addressed by the project is an Orthodox temple raised in 1932, the walls of which have been kept intact and th
In Arnedo, a municipality in Spain’s La Rioja region, the church of the Monastery of Our Lady of Vico – inhabited by nuns of the Cistercian Order – was refurbished on the basis of a project drawn up by the local practice of Ramón Ruiz Marrodán. The i
The Madrid firm of Iñaki Ábalos and Renata Sentkiewicz designed this temple that has been distinguished with the 2019 FAD International Award. Serving a Christian community, it marks the southern entrance into the New Bund urban development of southe
Outside the ideal city that the architect and urbanist Biagio Rossetti built for Ercole d’Este, Duke of Ferrara, in Renaissance times, the Church and Parish of San Giacomo contrasts its organic contour and open form against the compact and rigid natu
The Frate Sole Foundation has awarded the Canarian architect Fernando Menis with the 2004 International Prize for Sacred Architecture for the Church of the Holy Redeemer of Las Chumberas in La Laguna (Tenerife), which was chosen from among 128 design
In obstinate resistance to real estate speculation, the small early 20th-century St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church stood in the vicinity of the World Trade Center like an anachronistic residue of 1920s Manhattan, but was completely destroyed in the
A sicilian architect based in the city of Bologna, Mario Cucinella has designed a church devoted to St. Maria Goretti in Mormanno, a Calabrian town in the very heart of Pollino National Park. A cross is cut onto the surface of a sober white volume of
In New York, in line with the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, the Santiago Calatrava-designed St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was lit for the first time. The original temple was totally destroyed when Tower 2 of the World Trade Center collapsed. Pr
The area around London’s Olympic Park is a regeneration hothouse with micro-breweries, tech startups, speakeasys and spas. Now their spiritual needs are being met – with a beautiful chapel on a barge. A narrowboat moored to the towpath is offering pa
The illusory somewhat agricultural character of the Bagsværd Church, designed soon after Jørn Utzon’s return to Denmark from Australia, seems to confirm that in a secular age spiritual structures may be more effectively evoked through the evocation o
In the work of Eladio Dieste, whose birth has been one hundred years, technical ingenuity was placed at the service of the social program and Catholic fervor.
We commemorate 1914 at the heart of the conflict. A century after the Great War began, we Europeans watch the economic colossus of the continent with precaution, and hope the material giant also becomes a spiritual one. That tragic carnage, started b
La iglesia y el centro parroquial San Jorge en Pamplona, realizada por los arquitectos Tabuenca y Leache, ha abierto sus puertas en el barrio del mismo nombre de la capital navarra. El proyecto pone en relación las dos plazas urbanas que lo rodean a
En el año 2001 la Conferencia Episcopal Italiana convocó un concurso nacional para la construcción en la localidad de Foligno de una nueva iglesia «que simbolizara el renacimiento de la ciudad» tras el terremoto de 1997. Los ganadores fueron el matri
Le Corbusier habría cumplido 119 años este otoño. La inauguración, a finales de noviembre, de la iglesia de Saint-Pierre de Firminy nos coloca así en una posición extraña. Porque de esta obra largamente póstuma y que se podría temer anticuada emana u
Este libro tiene su origen en una tesis doctoral de indudable atractivo: analizar cómo se han enfrentado los arquitectos modernos a un tema tan antiguo como es el edificio religioso. El estudio en su versión moderna —es decir, en un periodo más bien
La vocación de arquitecto y la fe religiosa definen la biografía del monje benedictino Hans van der Laan (1904- 1991), la singular intensidad de cuya obra resume su ampliación de la Abadía de Vaals, a la que dedicó su vida y para la que diseñó inclus
En 1997 se celebró el centenario del nacimiento del arquitecto alemán Rudolf Schwarz (1897-1991), célebre sobre todo por sus numerosos edificios religiosos. El catálogo de la exposición correspondiente se presenta ahora en su versión italiana, y en l
Churches express the spectacular dimension of contemporary faith, made more vigorous by the weakening of confidence in civil reason.
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