Springer's Blog Posts Tagged 'religious' (11)

The Leaf Chapel is a small wedding chapel tucked into the grounds of the Risonare Resort in Kobuchizawa, Japan.  Architecture firm…

The Miami Chapel, a Catholic Church devoted to the Mexican Virgin Our Lady of Guadalupe, derives its corrugated form from the pleats of Our Lady of Guadalupe’s cloth.  The architecture is the work of…

The Wayfarers Chapel was designed by architect Lloyd Wright, son of the famous Frank Lloyd Wright.  Located along the coast of the Pacific Ocean in southern…

The Chapel of Rest for the Steinfeld cemetery is composed of two curving formwork elements that are intended to resemble two gentle, receiving hands.  It is the centerpiece of the redesigned Cemetery Centre in Graz, Austria.  The reinforced concrete structure by…

This 36 meter high architectural design has been shortlisted in the “Camelot at Cockfosters” competition for a site on Camelot moat, Enfield Park, north of London.  The site is said to be where the legendary Camelot Castle, home to King Arthur, was located.  This concept, called “The…

Photos were recently released of Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Martin Luther Church in Hainburg, Austria.  Isn’t it just stunning?

Its complex roof landscape gives…

The Bahá’í Temple for South America is designed by…

The Jewish Community Center in Mainz, Germany was designed by Manuel Hertz Architects.  Hertz notes that Judaism has never developed a strong architectural tradition, so the building’s form is an…

The first religious commission given to Mexico-based BNKR Arquitectura was for a wedding chapel built to joyously celebrate the first day of a couples’ new life together.  The…

In a nineteenth-century Roman Catholic cemetery in Rotterdam, two chapel shave stood in years past – a neo-Gothic structure of 1880 and a pyramid-shaped building of 1963 – both of which collapsed due to poor foundations on the soft soil.  For…