Hamburg, Germany – Angular, asymmetrical, colorful and just plain extraordinary, there are modern churches that will have one looking in vain for a traditional steeple. All around the world, ...
The project team uses creativity and modern techniques to ensure Gaudi’s masterpiece lasts well into the next century.
Church architecture has become a frontline of the liturgy wars as Catholic churches undergo re-renovations. Michael DeSanctis, a church building consultant and theology professor, is not pleased.
Church design may be the only kind of architecture that you learn about in the nursery. “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple…” Well, here is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the immense new ...
In a rapidly urbanizing China, some houses of worship are taking inspiration from the Bible while rethinking local architectural tradition. A scroll-shaped steeple. An imposing ark-shaped atrium. A ...
Consider a Gothic cathedral like Notre-Dame — so tragically mutilated this week — which also happens to be the very church that Hugo, in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," was talking about. That design ...
Recently, while watching a public television program on American architecture, I was reminded of the role that the late Charles Eames played in architecture and design. His iconic modern home in ...
From Lafond Avenue, on the building’s south side, the first thing that catches the eye is the tall Irish tower. … but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a ...
Traditionalists frowned when St. Columba opened in St. Paul's Midway area in 1950. Flat-roofed, with slab limestone walls, slit windows and a floor plan shaped like a fish — an early Christian symbol ...
In the United States today, the vast majority of people are born in hospitals, are educated in schools, find their recreation in groups ranging from Boy Scouts to investment clubs, pursue their life’s ...
The Danes are among the least religiously observant people in the world, with just 2.4 per cent of the population attending church on a weekly basis. Across the country, rural churches are empty, ...