One of the aims of the new church was to bring together as many functions as possible under one roof. A challenge with the project was therefore to create suitable rooms for a classroom, an office, a café, without affecting the actual Church space. By lowering the ground floor partially into the terrain, suitable space to accommodate the range of functions room was ge...
The designer’s description A large tree is the motif of the wooden panel design, called the Power of Flower, which carries the theme of ancestral roots and the prosperity of future generations. Through collaboration with a kimono designer, we were able to associate the various flowers and plants in the design with these concepts by using traditional patterns found in Ja...
With architecture as its base, Suppose Design has continued to offer new ways of thinking, designing, and forming relationships since it opened in 2000. We asked the firm’s founder, Tanijiri Makoto, to tell us about the project.Tell us about the basic concept for this project. A wedding hall is a place for couples to have a once-in-a-lifetime experience. We focused o...
The small limestone portal invites visitors from the street at the front and the parking at the back, opening up the church to those who might not otherwise be able to traverse the flight of steps to the sanctuary. Jeff Rawlins of Architectural Artisans answered a few questions about the project. What were the circumstances of receiving the commission for this project...
Last year the school dedicated the program's new venue, the Calcagnini Contemplative Center, named for alumnus Arthur Calcagnini, who has endowed the program since its inception. Located in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley, the Center's various buildings were designed by Dynerman Architects, a standout being the St. Ignatius Chapel. Alan Dynerman answered a few questions abo...
The Monastery of Santa Catalina de Siena is located in the Paterna district to the northwest of Valencia, and was designed by local firm Hernández Arquitectos for a community of Dominican nuns. The new facility replaces a monastery that previously accommodated the nuns, which was positioned alongside the site in a suburban area close to a busy road and a shopping centre...
The Islamic Community Centre and Mosque by Henning Larsen Architects will be built in Dortheavej, an area in northern Copenhagen. The 2,890-square-metre building, which will feature a series of interlocking domes, was commissioned by The Islamic Society of Denmark. "The new community centre and mosque at Dortheavej is a modern, Nordic interpretation of Islamic architect...
Commissioned by The Islamic Society of Denmark, the building will be oriented towards Mecca, and will be comprised of a series of interlocking domes that will stand 2, 890 square meters in size upon completion. Larsen’s team is melding Nordic and Islamic architectural traditions in the mosque’s design; a first for the Scandinavian country. Bright white and glowing, th...
Located in Hordaland close to Norway’s western gateway to the dazzling fjords, the 2,250-square-meter angular timber structure sits in a tranquil hillside spot like a folded star cut into the stark grey sky backdrop. However, although its angular shape juts out of the flat natural surrounding landscape, it surprisingly works in perfect harmony with its environment. The c...
The new monastery of Saint Catherine of Siena has been built beside the old monastery that inhabited these dominican nuns of Paterna and that after the move it was demolished. The new building, modern and functional, picks up all the needs of the congregation and adapts to the daily life of these cloistered nuns, that the architect Pedro Hernandez has known to distrib...
Chilean president Michelle Bachelet has announced plans to fund construction of the Gaudí Cultural and Spiritual Center in the city of Rancagua, including the chapel "Our Lady of the Angels" – expected to be the architect's first completed project outside Spain. The main tower will be covered with lapis lazuli – a deep-blue stone that is mined in Chile – and will be t...
The building’s design comes from reiulf ramstad architects, who won the commission from a competition held in 2010. their scheme, now realized, is shaped with an angular formal language, which loosely references the geometries of the region’s mountains and fjords. the singular volume is wrapped in wood cladding on its exterior and interior, while featuring vertical bands...
The most challenging task to approach involved combing the new with the old in the very cluster of the historical buildings. This very simple form of the building deprived of any needless ornaments on the one hand is built in respect to the historical background but on the other hand stands in striking contrast to them emphasizing modern times when it came into being....
Located on a private property, the 15 square meter building takes up the same area as the other religious shrines to be found in the surrounding district of fischbachau. once inside, worshipers are greeted with a staircase that leads to a single wooden bench. this area of seating is placed in front of a round window that frames a cross erected on the edge of the lawn...
the project was commissioned by a private client who, after seeing the estancia chapel, wanted a non-denominational space in which to meditate and venture into oneself. the chapel sits almost invisibly in the client’s garden under an elevated pond. the spiral floor plan and entry sequence takes visitors around a steadily sinking path below ground, circling around the air...
the project was initiated by the protestant and presbyterian community nam seoul grace church, and it will serve as a place of contemplation and prayer every day of the week. the building seeks to echo the surrounding nature by reducing the impact of the built mass, and uses reflective and transparent materials such as glass and polycarbonate. the space of worship is ...
‘The current situation has a confounded landscape with several wrongly installed objects,’ says tehrani. ‘the mosque consists of a tent-shaped building and an unfinished minaret. the client (tehran municipality) needed to remove the non-islamic face of a pyramid mosque and also to renovate the urban landscape. ’the work envisions a semi-transparent urban façade to par...
