Religious Building
Architectural design of spaces for worship, spiritual practice, and faith-based community gathering.
PARA Floats a Split-Open Canal House on Fifteen Pontoons for the 2021 Bruges Triennale
A temporary timber pavilion docked beside an abandoned 15th-century canal house in Bruges, unfolding the city's hidden layers without touching its ground.
S-AR Builds a Five-Square-Meter Concrete Chapel in a Mexican Garden from Thin Walls and Old Bricks
In Santiago, Nuevo León, a tunnel of 8 cm concrete walls tilts down to a steel cross, floored with crushed brick from the chapel it replaced.
Maison Bignon Sossou Weaves a Bamboo Canopy over a Rammed Earth Vodun Temple in Ouidah
In the coastal village of Toligbé, Benin, a 770 m² temple to Mami Dan pairs banded rammed earth with woven bamboo to give living Vodun ritual a home.
Rogoski Arquitetura Raises a Folded Steel-and-Timber Chapel on a Lakeside Deck in the Brazilian Amazon
In Cacoal, Rondônia, a 61 m² chapel hovers on a circular deck, wrapping a warm timber interior in dark metal and opening to the forest through triangles.
CAZA Gathers Circular Rooms into One Porous Church on a Wooded University Campus in Biñan
In Biñan, Philippines, Santuario de La Salle clusters circular chapels behind a ribbed colonnade and fin skin, easing campus bustle into worship.
Jaramillo Van Sluys Arquitectura and Urbanismo Turn a Demolished Registry Lot in Quito into an Orchard Plaza
In Quito's Centro Histórico, a 2,800 m² plaza exposes the San Agustín convent wall and redraws its lost Augustinian orchard in volcanic stone.
Alberto Campo Baeza Suspends a Gold Tabernacle Inside a Cube of Daylight in a Madrid Basilica
In Madrid's Basílica de la Milagrosa, a 1.2-metre translucent glass cube cut into the brick apse turns a missing altarpiece into a lantern.
Natura Futura Builds a Porous House of Prayer in Babahoyo from Brick and Timber Salvaged on Site
In Babahoyo, Ecuador, a community-funded prayer hall opens its brick and timber lattice to a young neighbourhood and stays deliberately unfinished.
Pineda Monedero Hollows Out a 1900 Sabadell Row House and Lets the Courtyard Back In
A party wall dwelling in Barcelona's industrial hinterland trades its overbuilt footprint for height, light, and a recovered garden.
Arquitectonica and Farrells Weave a 230,000 m² Mixed-Use District Around a Thousand-Year-Old Temple in Hangzhou
Winland Center channels Hangzhou's silk heritage and traditional courtyard planning into a canal-side development beside the ancient Xiangji Temple.
Neo Architects Folds a 63-Square-Meter Chapel Around Light, Water, and Sacred Geometry in Pretoria
On the Doxa Deo Campus in Brooklyn, Pretoria, two curved walls and a cantilevered roof create a sanctuary scaled to intimacy.
Spaceworkers Installs an Analog Augmented Reality Inside an 800-Year-Old Portuguese Church
Glass panels, pine flooring, and lines of light transform the Panteão dos Almeida in Abrantes into a fully reversible museum.
