Brusselssprout’s design “Mosque is More” was selected as finalist for the Mosque Category for Design as Reform Competition in Dubai. You can see more images, a video and architect’s description after the break. MOSQUE IS MORE. Islam (building) reflects the stark simplicity of the Arabian desert where it was born. According to the teachings of Islam, a simple life (building) is one, which is free..
Architects: Kevin deFreitas Architects Location: 2 Mazzetti Lane, Valley Center, California, USA Project Team: Kevin deFreitas & Manish Desai Structural Engineer: Envision Engineering Landscape Architect: LandLAB Inc. Mechanical Engineer: Stueven Engineering Plumbing & Electrical Engineer: BTA Engineers Contractor: Lusardi Construction Company Building Area: 6,112 sf + courtyard Construction Cos..
In 1954 Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill were commissioned to design the United States Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. Located in El Paso Country, Colorado, just outside of Colorado Springs, the chapel is of the training center for officers of the United States Air Force which is a large self-contained community. At an elevation of 6500 feet on the East of the Rocky Mountains, the 3,000 acre Academy ..
Architects: Arhitektura Krušec Location: Teharje, Slovenia Project Team: Lena Krušec, Tomaž Krušec Collaborators: Matej Nolda, Miha Žargi Client: Municipality of Celje Project Area: 160 sqm Project Year: 2007 Photographs: Miran Kambič The location at the top of a small slope in the middle of the village cemetery is characterised by beautiful panoramic views of the surrounding landscape. The arch..
“Stone On Stone” is a stop-motion video animation that uses the architectural language of High Gothic and Modernism to invent a contradictory history of their evolvement. The theme starts and finishes with the vast and unfinished Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, NYC. It is contrasted with Le Corbusier’s La Tourette monastery in France, competed in 1960. The video uses this anomalous bu..
Daniel Bonilla Architects designed the Porciúncula de la Milagrosa Chapel in Bogotá, Colombia. The chapel in la Calera has a basic geometry that tries to alter the territory as little as possible. It uses the natural features of the environment, the wind and the light, to create an essential harmony. The chapel is designed to open to the outside to allow worshipers to gather in mass, this archit..
New York office Butler Rogers Baskett Architects have been awarded an AIA New York 2010 Design Award for their renovation of a chapel at a New York school. Called Johnson Chapel, the interior features a slot in the ceiling that funnels in daylight and wooden panels on two sides that incorporate doors, seating and storage. The text that follows is from Butler Rogers Baskett: BUTLER ROGERS BASKETT..
The chapel was built to honor Nicholas von Flüe, the patron saint of Switzerland also known as Bruder Klaus, and contains his statue along with a single bench and some candles. The architect, Peter Zumthor of Switzerland has been chosen as the 2009 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. Most recently critics have praised his Field Chapel to Saint Nikolaus von der Flüe near Cologne, Germany..
Architects: SO Architecture Location: Kibbutz Yechiam, Israel Project Team: Oded rozenkier, Shachar Lulav Project year: 2008 Graphic Design: Maya Eyal-Rozenkier On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the convoy to Yechiam, the memorial site for those who were killed in the convoy, and for the fallen Kibbutz members, was designed. The project is situated in Kibbutz Yechiam on the north of Is..
Project information Project: Competition Ossuary Orthen Client: BAi, Den Bosch for Cemetery Orthen, Den Bosch Architects: buijsenpennock architects (Ard Buijsen, Iris Pennock) Collaborators: A2 Studio, Rotterdam (renderings); Reynoud Homan (typography) Year: 2009 Price: 2nd price Program: last resting place for 12.000 dead people Gross floor area: 883 m2 Gross content: 5300 m3 Main materials: Oa..
