Skewed concrete chapel by EMC Arquitectura balances over a mountainside in El Salvador
This asymmetric concrete chapel by EMC Arquitectura teeters on the edge of a mountain in El Salvador (+ slideshow). More
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Chilean chapel will become Gaudí's first project outside Spain
News: a chapel originally designed by Antoni Gaudí for the Sagrada Família in Barcelona is set to be constructed in Chile, 90 years after the Catalan architect's death. More
Reiulf Ramstad completes wooden church with a grand spire beside a Norwegian fjord
Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has reinterpreted the traditional Norwegian stave church to create a modern chapel featuring folded timber surfaces and a huge pyramid-shaped spire (+ slideshow). More
Zinc-clad chapel by René van Zuuk to be built over Almere's city lake
News: the city of Almere in the Netherlands has selected a small curvy chapel designed by architect René van Zuuk to be constructed over the surface of the Weerwater lake. More
Brutalist buildings: Pilgrimage Church, Neviges by Gottfried Böhm
Brutalism: one of the most revered religious buildings of the Brutalist period is Gottfried Böhm's Church of the Pilgrimage in Neviges, the crystalline structure that abandoned traditional Catholic architecture in favour of sharp angles and rough concrete (+ slideshow). More
Carmelite Monastery by Austin-Smith:Lord designed to be "calm, ordered and uplifting"
British firm Austin-Smith:Lord used textured brick for the internal and external surfaces of this monastery in Liverpool to give it an austere but coherent aesthetic (+ slideshow). More
Schneider+Schumacher's church based on motorway signage looks like Batman
A motorway sign symbol of a church was translated directly into the structure of this roadside chapel on the outskirts of Wilnsdorf, Germany, by Frankfurt architects Schneider+Schumacher (+ slideshow). More
CAZA's 100 Walls Church is surrounded by staggered walls
Walls of different heights and widths create a maze-like sequence of passages and entrances around the main hall of this church in the Philippines by New York architects CAZA (+ slideshow). More
Church congregation hall by SAGRA Architects features a towering white belfry
A rectilinear belfry towers above the geometric white volume of this church congregation hall in Hungary by local firm SAGRA Architects (+ slideshow). More
John Pawson's minimal St Moritz Church photographed during a choir rehearsal
This huge slideshow of images by British photographers Hufton + Crow shows the minimal interior of John Pawson's St Moritz Church in Augsburg, Germany, during a rehearsal for a choir recital. More
La Ascensión del Señor by AGi architects looks more like a factory than a church
The industrial materials used to construct this church in Seville, Spain, make it look more like an edge-of-town manufacturing plant than a place for worship (+ slideshow). More
Immanuel Church and Parish Centre by Sauerbruch Hutton
Diagonally laid timber planks create zig-zagging patterns across the exterior of this church in Cologne by German architects Sauerbruch Hutton (+ slideshow). More
Dapto Anglican Church Auditorium by Silvester Fuller
Faceted white walls frame the entrances to this monochrome auditorium in rural New South Wales by Australian architects Silvester Fuller (+ slideshow). More
Animation shows completion of Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família
News: the completion of Art Nouveau architect Antoni Gaudí's Sagrada Família basilica in Barcelona is simulated in this movie released to show the final stages of construction anticipated before 2026, 100 years after the death of the architect (+ movie). More
Shigeru Ban completes Cardboard Cathedral in Christchurch
News: the Cardboard Cathedral designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban opens to the public today in Christchurch, New Zealand. More
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St Moritz Church by John Pawson
British architect John Pawson's minimalist remodelling of a church in Augsburg, Germany, includes slices of onyx over the windows to diffuse light more softly through the space. More
Bishop Edward King Chapel by Niall McLaughlin Architects
This elliptical chapel near Oxford by London studio Niall McLaughlin Architects contains a group of arching timber columns behind its textured stone facade (+ slideshow). More
Critics reject "clumsy" proposals for earthquake-hit Christchurch cathedral
News: architects and critics have called for the earthquake-damaged Christchurch Cathedral in New Zealand to be restored to its original gothic appearance after rejecting two contemporary proposals as "bizarre" and "architecturally illiterate". More
Shrine of the Virgin of La Antigua by Otxotorena Arquitectos
A rescued stone colonnade stands amongst planes of concrete at this religious shrine in the Spanish countryside by Pamplona studio Otxotorena Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More