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This tiny church in Denmark is a fresh take on sacred spaceTiny Church Tolvkanten by Julius Nielsen and Dinesen unifies tradition with modernity in its raw and simple design, demonstrating how the church can remain relevant today
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A new village chapel in the Czech Republic is rich in material and visual symbolismStudio RCNKSK has completed a new chapel - the decade-long project of Our Lady of Sorrows in Nesvačilka, South Moravia
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A contemporary Istanbul mosque offers a take on traditionTurkey's Degostudio crafts this Istanbul mosque as a new, functional space for worship with accessible facilities
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Giovanni Michelucci’s dramatic concrete church in the Italian DolomitesGiovanni Michelucci’s concrete Church of Santa Maria Immacolata in the Italian Dolomites is a reverently uplifting memorial to the victims of a local disaster
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The modernist First Christian Church celebrates its iconic tower’s restoration in ColumbusThe modernist First Christian Church in Columbus, Indiana, designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen, has completed extensive restoration works on its iconic tower
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Inside Notre-Dame: Guillaume Bardet's furniture for the restoration of Notre-Dame de ParisFor the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris in 2024, French designer Guillaume Bardet created a series of liturgical objects
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Restored Saint-Michel de Brasparts Chapel features interiors by Ronan BouroullecFor the reopening of the Saint-Michel de Brasparts Chapel in Brittany, Ronan Bouroullec elevated the interiors with a new altar design
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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
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A spectacular Brazilian church evokes the spirit of Niemeyer and CostaARQBR Arquitetura e Urbanismo has shaped a dramatic new concrete Brazilian church that emerges from the landscape of the country's Highlands
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Tales from the crypt: Dow Jones Architects refurbishes a Hawksmoor icon -
Old and new: AL_A combine tradition and modernity for Abu Dhabi mosque -
High rise: a chapel in a Helsinki suburb is a vaulting success -
Holy brick: the Argentinian chapel that changes with the rotation of the sun -
British mosques explored: 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale previewPreviewing 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
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Brutalist cathedral in the UK opens to the public following renovation -
Piercy & Co gives an historic London church modern geometries -
The future of religion: RSAA reveal new church design for China’s Zhangjiagang -
Slow architecture: John Pawson’s Casa delle Bottere complex in VenetoWallpaper* 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.
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Holy orders: Not Vital’s installation in a remote Filipino province is worth a pilgrimage -
Brutalism blossoms in Sydney with a new orthogonal concrete mosqueSculptural 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.
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Gio Ponti’s cut-out cathedral in Taranto deserves a resurrection -
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
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Walter Maria Förderer’s 1960s European churches remain avant-garde todayIn 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.
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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
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Shining levels: John McAslan + Partners' Kericho cathedral embraces Kenyan design language -
A photographer’s pilgrimage around Europe’s most spectacular modern churchesPhotographer Jamie McGregor Smith captures some of Europe’s most striking religious architecture – modern churches
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High worship: Maroun Lahoud designs minimal Maronite church in Lebanon
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