Religious Architecture | Tag (page 14)

Video: Lakewood Garden Mausoleum / HGA

Subscriber Access | February 06, 2013

Serving as the foremost resting place for Minnesota’s distinguished citizens, the Lakewood Garden Mausoleum, designed by HGA, is a treasured landmark and community asset in the city’s neighborhood. The video above captures its pastoral quality and embraces the landscape while offering a contemplative interior experience. It also highlights the design’s relationship between natural light and nature, which strengthens the connection between the spiritual and the earth-bound.

Ecumenical Forum HafenCity / Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch

February 05, 2013

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Architects: Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch
Year: 2012
Manufacturers: Wittmunder Klinker Neuschoo, batimet

Mosque (Amir Al-Momenin) Proposal / CAAT Studio

Subscriber Access | February 02, 2013

Focusing on local architecture, the proposal for the Mosque (Amir Al- Momenin) by CAAT Studio detaches from everyday life and the approach to worship space in accessing the building. The integrated entity of the proposal plays its role as a religious and cultural center in the region scale while communicating with the environment. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Shrine of the Virgin of La Antigua / Otxotorena Arquitectos

February 01, 2013

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Architects: Otxotorena Arquitectos
Year: 2009

As burial field / Karres en Brands

January 30, 2013

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Architects: Karres en Brands
Area: 10000 m²
Year: 2008

Congregation House / SAGRA Architects

January 25, 2013

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Architects: SAGRA Architects
Year: 2012

AD Classics: Colònia Güell / Antoni Gaudí

January 25, 2013

Colònia Güell was a workers’ colony located in Santa Coloma de Cervelló, presently a town of around 7,000 inhabitants 20km outside Barcelona. The area was a manufacturing suburb that grew rapidly around the turn of the 20^th century. In 1898, Antoni Gaudi was commissioned by Count Eusebi de Güell, who wanted to provide a place of worship for the booming suburb, to build a Church. It was never actually completed because the money ran out as a result of economic hardships. When work stopped in 1915, only the crypt was completed, though it is nevertheless listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site. In 2002, a restoration was carried out by architect Antonio González Moreno who was widely criticized for allegedly mistreating Gaudi’s work.

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Cistercian Abbey Church / Cunningham Architects

January 23, 2013

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Architects: Cunningham Architects

Notre Dame de l’Assomption - National Cathedral Competition Entry / NC-Office

Subscriber Access | January 20, 2013

Recently destroyed by the 2010 Earthquake, Port-au-Prince’s new design for the National Cathedral is presented as an absolute plain wall of concrete which expresses the true character of the construction. Designed by NC-Office, the concrete material is not only structurally appropriate, but it also produces a somber cool space that absorbs light – forming an architecture of shadows. More images and architects’ description after the break.

New Synagogue Dresden / Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch

January 17, 2013

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Architects: Wandel Hoefer Lorch + Hirsch
Year: 1997

Islamic Funeral Pavilion / Atelier PUUUR

January 15, 2013

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Brooks + Scarpa design Interfaith Chapel in Florida

January 15, 2013

The highly acclaimed Los Angeles-based practice Brooks + Scarpa Architects, along with KZF Design, have released plans for a new Interfaith Chapel at the University of North Florida. Drawing inspiration from a free-flowing wedding gown, its informally shaped footprint - reminiscent of an allegorical figure such as Justice, Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence and Fortitude - flows upward and culminates at the top with a large skylight whose light is diffused by a wooden lattice spire that is derived from the symbol of infinity.

The symbolic, 7000 square-foot structure will provide students with an intimate, spiritual space that may be used daily while also supporting a variety of diverse religious services, such as student ceremonies, weddings, lectures, meditative practices, musical performances and more.

Learn more about Brooks + Scarpa’s wooden chapel after the break.