Religious architecture
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A contemporary Istanbul mosque offers a take on tradition
Turkey's Degostudio crafts this Istanbul mosque as a new, functional space for worship with accessible facilities
By Feride Yalav-Heckeroth Published
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Giovanni Michelucci’s dramatic concrete church in the Italian Dolomites
Giovanni Michelucci’s concrete Church of Santa Maria Immacolata in the Italian Dolomites is a reverently uplifting memorial to the victims of a local disaster
By Jonathan Glancey Published
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The modernist First Christian Church celebrates its iconic tower’s restoration in Columbus
The modernist First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, has completed extensive restoration works on its iconic tower
By Audrey Henderson Published
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Inside Notre-Dame: Guillaume Bardet's furniture for the restoration of Notre-Dame de Paris
For the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris in 2024, French designer Guillaume Bardet created a series of liturgical objects
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Restored Saint-Michel de Brasparts Chapel features interiors by Ronan Bouroullec
For the reopening of the Saint-Michel de Brasparts Chapel in Brittany, Ronan Bouroullec elevated the interiors with a new altar design
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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CAZA’s Santuario de La Salle aims to ‘connect people to place and heritage’
CAZA’s Santuario de La Salle church pushes the boundaries of traditional religious design at the De La Salle University campus in the Philippines’ Biñan City
By Nana Ama Owusu-Ansah Published
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A spectacular Brazilian church evokes the spirit of Niemeyer and Costa
ARQBR Arquitetura e Urbanismo has shaped a dramatic new concrete Brazilian church that emerges from the landscape of the country's Highlands
By Jonathan Bell Published
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Divine intervention: Markus Brunetti’s imposing architectural icons
By Brook Mason Last updated
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Tales from the crypt: Dow Jones Architects refurbishes a Hawksmoor icon
By Nicola Fox Hill Last updated
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High rise: a chapel in a Helsinki suburb is a vaulting success
By Crystal Bennes Last updated
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Holy brick: the Argentinian chapel that changes with the rotation of the sun
By Mariana Rapoport Last updated
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Swiss architect Mario Botta’s sacred buildings
By Harriet Thorpe Last updated
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British mosques explored: 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale preview
Previewing the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, we catch up with Shahed Saleem, one of the curators at the Applied Arts Pavilion Special Project. Titled ‘Three British Mosques', this exciting collaboration between La Biennale di Venezia and London's Victoria & Albert Museum focuses on adapted mosque spaces in London
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Brutalist cathedral in the UK opens to the public following renovation
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Piercy & Co gives an historic London church modern geometries
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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The future of religion: RSAA reveal new church design for China’s Zhangjiagang
By Rhiannon McGregor Last updated
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Slow architecture: John Pawson’s Casa delle Bottere complex in Veneto
Wallpaper* met with John Pawson during the construction of Casa delle Bottere in Veneto, northern Italy, in 2010. The house, that completed in 2014, was, for both designer and client, an exercise in slow architecture, recognising the time, thought and space required for the birthing of a masterpiece of minimalism.
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Chiharu Shiota weaves past, present and future at an 18th-century Yorkshire chapel
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Brutalism blossoms in Sydney with a new orthogonal concrete mosque
Sculptural concrete poetically channels space and light at Candalepas Associates’ new home for the Australian Islamic Mission. From the vaulted ceiling with funnel-shaped skylight, to the rounded wooden rings that gradual constrict towards an oculus, and the muqarnas that welcome in slim rays of sunlight, each architectural element breathes geometry and spirituality.
By Luke Halls Last updated
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Gio Ponti’s cut-out cathedral in Taranto deserves a resurrection
By Christopher Stocks Last updated
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The architecture of Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021)
Pritzker Prize winning German architect Gottfried Böhm (1920-2021) passed away on 9 June 2021 at the age of 101. Here, we revisit a story from the Wallpaper* archives, celebrating the geometric shapes of his 1968 Pilgrimage Church near Koln
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Walter Maria Förderer’s 1960s European churches remain avant-garde today
In the 1960s, Walter Maria Förderer designed eight churches in Switzerland and Germany. Influenced by Le Corbusier, and even more so by the collages of Kurt Schwitters and Gothic architecture, Förderer designed cascades of concrete blocks and strange totemic objects that now form some of Europe’s most avant-garde religious buildings.
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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Marina Tabassum on the ‘architecture of relevance’
Dhaka-based architect Marina Tabassum – tipped by Frida Escobedo as one of 25 creative leaders of the future in Wallpaper’s 25th Anniversary Issue ‘5x5’ project – on architecture for human wellbeing and dignity
By Shawn Adams Last updated
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Shining levels: John McAslan + Partners' Kericho cathedral embraces Kenyan design language
By Daven Wu Last updated
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A photographer’s pilgrimage around Europe’s most spectacular modern churches
Photographer Jamie McGregor Smith captures some of Europe’s most striking religious architecture – modern churches
By Jonathan Bell Last updated
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High worship: Maroun Lahoud designs minimal Maronite church in Lebanon
By Mary Pelletier Last updated
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Temple of Steps named Best New Public Building: Wallpaper* Design Awards 2021
The shortlist for the Wallpaper* Design Award for Best New Public Building 2021 includes world-leading culture, community and infrastructure spaces
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated