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Project • By BURATTI ARCHITETTI • Community Centres
Oratorio San Luigi
The theme of community and the idea of creating a space and an architecture for meeting have guided all the long and complex phases of this project: one of the few newly built Oratories of the Diocese of Milan, the San Luigi Oratory of the Parish of Casorezzo.
The project for the new Oratory began in 2005, when we were invited to participate in a design competition. Initially planned for a different area and under the guidance of a different parish priest, the project stalled for many years. It was the enthusiasm and determination of the new parish priest, Don Eugenio Baio, along with the close and effective collaboration with the Administrative Office of the Diocese of Milan and the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI), that reignited the p... More
Project • By Mosa • Universities
The Catholic University of America
Project Catholic University, published by Mosa.
Location: Washington D.C., United States
Category: Universities
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Project • By Acton Ostry Architects • Primary Schools
St. Augustine School
The Oblates of Mary Immaculate founded St. Augustine School over one hundred years ago, at which time the school shared quarters with St. Augustine Church in a domed, three-storey, brick building located in the Kitsilanoneighbourhood of Vancouver. In 1951, the original school was demolished and replaced with what was to be a temporary, single-storey, wood-frame building. Sixty-four years later, a new three-storey, 300 student, 4,200 square metre, red brick-clad school and child care facility that features fifteen classrooms, a learning commons, multipurpose spaces and allowance for a new gymnasium occupies the compact site.
The new school is clad with brick masonry and provides a symbolic link to the existing St. Augustine Church + P... More