Saint Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Christian Church that located in Springdale, United States, was designed by Marlon Blackwell Architect. The interior vertical surfaces of the church are bathed in light and colour accents with limited articulation. The horizontal surfaces are expressive, revealing priorities and hierarchies. In the fellowship hall, the original concrete slab and the roof structure...
Al-Irsyad Mosque, Kota Baru Parahyangan that located in Padalarang, Jawa Barat, Indonesia, was designed by Urbane Indonesia. The primary shape of the mosque takes the form of a square, which seems the most efficient use of space since Muslims pray in straight rows facing a specific direction or the Qiblah.The structural columns are arranged in such way that the façade seems like it is not supported...
Located in Ordos, Mongolia, Ordos Protestant Church a new Church was designed by Sunlay Design Co. Ltd. The scheme, named ‘Dove of Peace’, gives its metaphor and poetry to the church by re-interpreting a contemporary and abstract silhouette of the bird caring a branch of Olive in its beak. The Church has a concrete structure and uses white crepi finish for its facades. Its dynamic shape...
Designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, The Cathedral of Christ the Light is located in Oakland, United States. The region’s 500,000 Catholics now have a central cathedral, something they have been without since the loss of the historic St. Francis de Sales Cathedral to the Loma Prieta earthquake. The Cathedral is part of a larger complex woven together by gardens and a public plaza, which...
Located in Acapulco, Mexico, Sunset Chapel, a chapel like a giant rock to blend with surrounding nature was designed by Bunker Arquitectura. Bunker Arquitectura’s first religious commission, La Estancia Chapel, was a wedding chapel conceived to celebrate the first day of a couple’s new life. Their second religious commission, Sunset Chapel, had a diametrically opposite purpose: to mourn...