Church architecture

The Lighthouse Project involved the restoration and repurposing of the Grade II listed St Michael’s Church in Byker, Newcastle upon Tyne. Designed by Bradley McClure Architects and delivered by Eden London UK Ltd, the project transformed the disused church into a youth and community hub with music studios, art spaces and flexible facilities for charities and community groups. A contemporary timber framed extension provides a new reception and dedicated youth space, while the wider development includes landscaped play areas and a sports pitch. IQ Projects was appointed to design, manufacture and install the specialist internal glazing package. This included bespoke glazed partitions around the central nave, shaped structural glazing w... More

London-based architectural studio John Puttick Associates has completed the refurbishment of the Grade II-listed St Leonard’s Church in Hove, a seaside resort on England’s southern coast. The renovated structure features a contemporary glulam (glued laminated timber) porch with a standing seam zinc roof. The new porch is designed to encapsulate the church’s welcoming nature. Gareth Gardner John Puttick Associates St Leonard’s Church was originally built in the 13th century and eventually fell into ruin. The church remained in ruins until 1878, when English architects Richard Herbert Carpenter and Benjamin Ingelow were tasked with rebuilding it. Incorporating parts of the original tower and south aisle, the... More

Recently, churches have been performing a role not only as puritanical churches but also as local community facilities. If a church that performs such an intermediate role overwhelms the surroundings with its ornate appearance, it would be absolutely not possible to avoid friction with the surroundings. We thought that urban churches would need to look simple in order to be considerate of neighbors and such formative simplicity in the busy downtown landscape could rather bring stronger symbolism. Caption Caption Through an appropriate openings plan in a simple-form building that allows openings where they should be opened and eliminates openings where they should be closed, we allowed the church windows to be functionally operati... More

In the 1970’s, a new highway was planned to encircle the metro Tucson area along the Pantano Wash. Christ Community Church purchased property along this new route, and had a new campus designed to encircle a tall prayer tower. Like many master plans, things didn’t pan out as planned. The highway was not built, and the prayer tower was never completed. Caption Through the years the church grew in size and in the campus buildings, but growth deviated from the original plan and took on a disorganized fashion, which the current congregation has to deal with on a daily basis. SDG was asked to help re-think the campus; what are the possibilities to redo parts of the campus while both preserving newer buildings, creating a sense... More

The building site of [The Sarang Church] is facing the 40m road on north. Since it is located at northern corner of the block, it is the first object that the car drivers will recognize right after they get out of the tunnel. Moreover, the site has an atypical triangular shape so that we decided to follow the atypical mass which is corresponding to shape of the site rather than adjusting the efficient rectangular plans. Then, we facilitate the required programs of church into the atypical mass form. Soo-Uk Chae Soo-Uk Chae Soo-Uk Chae First image that we created is the “fortress”. (Lord is my strong fortress) Second image is the “ark” (Noah’s ark, which saves the world) Third image is the &ldq... More

The new Lutheran church of Piliscsaba, located in an accessible place for the residents of the settlement, proclaims the mission statement of the Lutheran Church on the corner of Széchenyi Street and Szent László Street: "Visibly Lutheran." From a liturgical perspective, it is a unified, central space, with a ceiling adorned with point-like light sources arranged in the shape of stars, symbolically representing the vault (Heaven) of the entire created world. Tamás Bunjovszky Tamás Bunjovszky Tamás Bujnovszkí Tamás Bunjovszky Tamás Bunjovszky However, the planned new church is not only a sacred building but also serves as a community facility providing s... More

The Church of the "INLIGHT" is a late spatial narrative of the Gothic Church in the abstraction of the sensory-intellectual proportion of the geometric and sacred space of architecture. It is an effort to revitalize the flexible and unrestricted spatial quality of the church to focus on the proportions of man and the built environment. By creating a spatial opening in the central axis, this church attempts to watch, what is invisible, what can be described as a form of conceptual reading, and represents the inherent liberty of the human soul, body, and mind in Christian intention. Caption Caption Caption (SPECIAL MENTION - "INLIGHT CHURCH"- Golden Trezzini Awards 2021 - Best Project of Public Building or Facility - Petersbur... More

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE URBAN ENVIRONMENTThe 'San Giacomo Apostolo' parish complex is a catalyst for the area in which it is located, forming a new nerve center capable of creating identity in the local community and promoting socialization, education and interaction within it.The building is structured as a kindly and open presence to the inhabitants, thanks to a light and organic architecture that contrasts with the solid and compact materiality of the historical preexistence of Ferrara. The slender profile of the trees encloses the plot, creating an intimate and familiar environment, in which the building dominates the scene with its sculptural forms, but at the same time dialogues with the surrounding nature thanks to a language inspired... More