Religious Facilities
All renderings courtesy Gensler
What once destroyed Notre-Dame will now serve to make it stronger.
Pictured: Klein A45, Catskill Mountains, New York, by Bjarke Ingels Group. This prototype mountainside cabin is entirely customizable for homeowners to purchase, tailor, and have the tiny house built within 4-6 months in any location, for any purpose. Photo: Matthew Carbone
Bjarke Ingels Group's prototype mountainside cabin and Fieldwork's forest pedestrian bridges are...
read moreTrinity Church Wall Street, which hasn't been renovated since 1946, will be closed through the Spring of 2020 for extensive upgrades and improvements. Image: Courtesy of Trinity Church
Improvements will include a new lighting and sound system, and a movable altar.
The Sealing Room is where couples are married and sealed to one another in the LDS faith. Interior finishes needed to capture purity, eternity, and love. All photos © Intellectual Reserve, Inc.
Parts of the tabernacle’s exterior shell were the only things that survived the blaze.
The plant is the first in a series of upgrades planned for 2017 to adapt one of New York’s earlie...
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Rendering courtesy of Foster + Partners.
The Foster + Partners-designed building will address the shortage of accommodation in Mecca.
Rendering courtesy of InGenious Studio
The Hindu temple will stand 700 feet-tall when completed, easily surpassing the current tallest c...
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Mypower will install 150 solar panels on the roof, making it the oldest cathedral in the UK, and...
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Gensler, Leo A Daly, Brasfield & Gorrie, Layton Construction, and AECOM top Building Design+C...
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Ark Encounter. Photo and video courtesy Ark Encounter.
Ark Encounter, the largest timber-framed structure in the world, opened in Kentucky.
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The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral, with the 3737 Chestnut building in the background. Courtesy BLT Architects. Click here to enlarge.
The Philadelphia Episcopal Cathedral capitalizes on hot property to help fund much needed upgrade...
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A 50-foot x 90-foot metal building system from Star Buildings allowed the church to build its bas...
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Rendering courtesy Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture. Click here to enlarge.
The ellipse-shaped building has plenty of gathering spots and outdoor views.
The recently completed St. Nicholas the Wonderworker in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, includes a 12-ton metal dome, the first of its kind to be included in new construction of a basilica in that country. Image: HMC Construction
The church is 2½ times larger than the basilica in Ukraine it references.
Perot Museum of Nature and Science. Photo: Joe Mabel via Wikimedia Commons
Morphosis' Perot Museum and Studio Gang's WMS Boathouse are among the projects to win AIA's highe...
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This AIA CES Discovery course discusses the six elements of an EIFS wall assembly; common EIFS fa...
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Six new towers to be added will make the cathedral Europe's tallest religious building.
Six new towers to be added will make the cathedral Europe's tallest religious building.
The 16,000-sf temple, in the wooded suburbs north of Columbus, OH, utilized a Star Building System. Although it does not look it, it is a single-slope roof structure.
The beliefs of the congregation required specific compass-orientations for certain rooms
Images courtesy Murphy Burnham & Buttrick Architects
The three-year reconstruction project included more than 30,000 preservations and repairs.
A Boston developer is proposing to build an eight-story residential building along the existing wall of a former 19th-Century church, which has been vacant for five years. Rendering courtesy Finegold Alexander Architects
Former churches, many of which are sitting on prime urban real estate, are being converted into l...
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People would be able to enter the restaurant from Fifth + Columbia, a $400 million, 43-story tower that Daniels started building in June 2014 and is scheduled to complete in 2017. Rendering: ZGF Architects
A Seattle-based real estate developer plans to convert a historic downtown building, which for mo...
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The Vanderbilt Medical Center at One Hundred Oaks Mall transformed a former 1960s-era indoor shopping mall in Nashville, Tenn., into a mixed-use medical office center for Vanderbilt University. Photo courtesy Vanderbilt University
Approximately one-third of the country’s 1,200 enclosed malls are dead or dying. The good news is...
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The Illinois Institute of Technology's Main Building is among the city buildings at the highest risk of being lost to demolition or decay, according to the group Preservation Chicago. All photos provided by Ward Miller of Preservation Chicago
Preservation Chicago released its annual list of historic buildings that are at risk of being dem...
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Architect Jordi Fauli has taken over responsibilities for finishing Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece. F...
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Photo credit: Mikkel Frost
Copenhagen, Berlin, and Rotterdam are the cities where most of the shortlisted works have been bu...
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Nearly 100 years after Antoni Gaudí’s death, Chile will begin constructing a chapel using his des...
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Calatrava reveals that he wanted to retain the “tiny home” feel of the original church building t...
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Construction consultant FMI foresees—with some caveats—continuing growth in the office, lodging,...
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This month's increase in nonresidential construction spending is far more consistent with the ane...
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Providing more comfortable conditions to building occupants has become a top priority in today’s...
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