A circular enclosure, semi-buried in the terrain, fuses symbolically with the landscape of Todos Santos, in the South Baja California Desert. This discreet project, commissioned by Paradero Hotels, harbors a 185-square-meter non-religious ceremony sp
A small ceremonial space nestles under a pronounced pitched roof that rises high over the walls of the graveyard but engages in dialogue with their materiality. The spaces create a contemplative mood through the carefully choreographed entrance of li
Meant to be a place for reflection, silence, and prayer, and for a community whose members practice different religions, this underground chapel disappears in the landscape of San Antonio Baspul, a locality within the municipality of Chicxulub Pueblo
The château La Coste Winery is located 15 kilometers north of the old town area of Aix-en-Provence in southern France. The project included the restructuring of the complex to transform it into a garden museum dotted with outdoor sculptures and pavil
The chapel, built in concrete and lined with local limestone, is a slender volume of clear lines tucked into the sloping terrain of the hill. The worship space is accessed from the side through a terraced courtyard facing the views.
The refurbishment of this chapel, a project of Sebastián Arquitectos, is included in the second phase of a series of interventions on the French Way as it passes through Aragón. Facing the Leyre mountains, amid elms and oaks, the building once treasu
Designed by the Mexican firm WRKSHP, with Rigoberto Almaguer at the helm, the church for the Fuego Nuevo congregation is located in Monterrey's El Uro neighborhood. It draws its rhythm from an interplay of solids and voids that lets daylight in. With
Along the A13 highway outside Andeer, a municipality in the Swiss canton of Graubünden, the firm Herzog & de Meuron will build a chapel with four 10-meter-high white walls positioned at angles to support each other in a play of inclinations. Chal
The image that inspires the project is that of an old boat adrift in the ocean for years. With time, the ocean recedes and leaves an empty structure behind, still lying on the beach. Starting from this poetic image, the project focuses on both the in
Since early times religion has been a rich and constant source of inspiration for art and architecture. Interpreting the sense and form of the sacred spaces is a hard task to take forward in today’s secular context. This chapel, conceived in 21st-cen
A wooden prism stands on the edge of a cycling lane that stretches through a Bavarian forest, providing a place to stop and rest in that also encourages meditation and recollection. On a base of concrete, solid trunks are stacked and flattened vertic
Inagawa Cemetery is located on a steep site in the Hokusetsu Mountain Range of Hyogo Prefecture, approximately 40 kilometers north of the city of Osaka. Adapted to the contour of the terrain, the cemetery is laid out across terraces. A monumental fli
The Holy See decided to participate for the first time in the Venice Architecture Biennale, in the 16th edition of the exhibition, with a unique proposal. The Holy See Pavilion consists of ten small chapels built in the woods of San Giorgio Maggiore
Inspired in the form and construction of traditional coal ovens, the chapel takes the shape of an irregular prism inside of which a simple brick vault has been sculpted.
An anti-earhquake structure of crisscrossing larchwood beams form an origami-like space that opens on to a forest through a series of large glazed openings.
Two spiral staircases that meet 15.26 m above the ground give shape to the chapel, used for weddings; the structure absorbs vertical loads through pillars 10 cm in diameter and compensate the lateral ones with the mutual pressures of both helicoids..
Built with very scarce means, the Church of Santa Maria dos Anjos reduces its design to the essential, in tune with the austerity preached by the Franciscan order that uses it. The objective is to achieve the maximum architectural quality with the mi
Atriangular and sloping plot with a high visibility was the site chosen for this chapel, where the project considered the possibility of celebrating masses both indoors and outdoors. Two works inspired the authors: the church of São Pedro das Águia
The construction of the church is basically a frame of wooden beams clad with boards and shingles of the same material. The entrance facade is opaque, while the gable on the other end, behind the altar, is totally glazed, bringing in light and offeri
This small space for prayer is part of a project whereby six mobile constructions are to travel to rural communities in the state of North Dakota, in the northernmost part of the USA, offering places for retreat.
A group of students led by Professor F. Flury and with the help of Ecker Architekten designed this chapel of ecumenical denomination, in the building of which wood from nearby municipal forests was used.
The chapel is a volume of exposed concrete and wood that, in spite of its reduced dimensions, manages to include a bell tower that, like a portal, covers the threshold of the entrance. The hermetic interior is toplit.
The mountainous terrain of Trás-os-Montes is the frame of the chapel’s simple white prism, which is dominated by large windows opening on to the landscape and a wooden sliding door situated at the entrance.
For centuries architects were at the service of religious powers-that-be, and temples had priority over all other kinds of buildings. Maybe this explains why so many of today’s veterans are so eager to be commissioned to build churches and chapels. A
When When Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi set in motion the Holy See’s first entry in the International Venice Architec-ture Biennale, which opened on 26 May 2018, he was building on the Vatican’s decades-old program to establish new alliances betwe
