Religious Facilities
Downtown Los Angeles has $3 billion in new construction projects under development, including The Grand, a mixed-used 1.2-million-sf public-private partnership that Related Cos. is developing, according to a new report from the Downtown Center Business Improvement District. However, JLL's latest Construction Forecast predicts a slow recovery in construction spending nationwide. Image: Related Companies
Predicts second-half improvement toward normalization next year.
Pictured: Arlington (Va.) Public Schools Heights Building Photo by Jim Tetro, courtesy Gilbane
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Rendering of the completed Sagrada Familia
The project has been under construction since 1882.
Semans-Griswold Environmental Hall, designed by Ayers Saint Gross, is home to Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society and commands a picturesque site on the Chester River. The river is a living laboratory that provides students with an immersive experience in support of the building’s programs in environmental science and sustainability. Photo courtesy Ayers Saint Gross
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All images courtesy of RBB Architects
RBB Architects designed the building.
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
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Trinity 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.
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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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Architect Jordi Fauli has taken over responsibilities for finishing Antoni Gaudi's masterpiece. F...
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Metal church in Spitak, Armenia (then part of the U.S.S.R), built after the earthquake in 1988. Photo courtesy of Mcsochi/Wikimedia Commons.
Affordability and speed of building are important factors.
