Tag: Religious
Proposal to heritage list Seidler’s only religious building
A Sydney council has submitted a proposal to heritage list Harry Seidler’s only religious building.
Candalepas-designed church redevelopment approved
Angelo Candalepas hopes that the $27.5 million redevelopment of a 173-year-old cathedral, recognised as the centre of Greek Orthodoxy in Australia, “will be a seminal work for [his] office.”
Church of the Living God
In suburban Sydney, a mixed-use building for the community of the Church of the Living God offers a civic presence and a deep sense of the sacred while communing with the surrounding streets.
Offices to be built next to historic St Patrick’s Church
The Archdiocese of Brisbane has unveiled ambitious plans to build an eight-storey office block next to St Patrick’s Church.
Heritage bid for modernist church in Far North Queensland
A church designed by Eddie Oribin will be sold by the local parish, prompting a bid to have the building added to the Queensland Heritage Register.
Candalepas redevelop significant Blacket church
Candalepas Associates is leading the design for restoration and redevelopment of a heritage-listed church designed by Edmund Blacket in 1848.
Derelict brutalist office reimagined as modern church campus
Carmody Groarke won a competition to design the new campus in Nuremberg, Bavaria.
Heritage church hall to be replaced with towers
A heritage-listed hall at Australia’s oldest church site would be demolished under a proposal to construct two towers and a public square.
Studio Bright’s golden, arched church expansion approved
The transformation of a Coptic orthodox church in Melbourne’s Kensington will balance the religious and the public – a place for the congregation and broader community.
Divine inspiration: Holy Family Catholic Church, Indooroopilly
Deserving of more care and attention, this Indooroopilly Church is an expressive and memorable example of Australian modernist ecclesiastic architecture.
A story of migration, refuge and reconstruction: Elwood Talmud Torah
Viennese émigré Kurt Popper was a remarkable and prolific architect who helped introduce European modernism to the design of Australia’s places of worship.
A ‘grand collective effort’ in a regional Victorian church
Muir and Shepherd’s church for a small community at Katamatite in northern Victoria represents a remarkable period of architectural experimentation.
For love of whimsy: Kooroomba Chapel
Through inventive tectonics, Wilson Architects has overlaid a picturesque landscape experience with allusions to an earlier settler culture.
Radical and poetic: Australian Islamic Centre of Newport
In the western suburbs of Melbourne, a landmark mosque designed by Glenn Murcutt and Elevli Plus assumes a contemporary architectural language that abstracts the conventional symbols of Islamic places of worship.
Exuberant allegory: Emanuel Synagogue
Lippman Partnership’s exuberant addition to a synagogue campus in Sydney responds to two significant twentieth-century architectural works in a dialogue that reflects the plurality of the Jewish faith.
Construction begins on Bendigo mosque and cultural centre
Designed by GKA Architects, the Bendigo mosque – the subject of bitter protests – will reference local architectural history and the diverse cultures of the Islamic community.
A ‘modern architectural masterpiece’: Punchbowl Mosque
In the south-west Sydney suburb of Punchbowl, the ritualistic and formal traditions of the Islamic faith find contemporary expression in a monumental ode to prayer.
Construction begins on Cox Architecture’s Wesley Place tower
Work has begun on the construction of a 34-storey tower, designed by Cox Architecture, which will neighbour a historic church in the centre of Melbourne.
Building architectural bridges to connect civilizations
Philip Drew expounds on the nuanced relationship between architecture and tolerance with reference to projects in Melbourne, Sydney and Doha.
A 99-domed mosque opens for Sydney Architecture Festival
Angelo Candalepas talks to ArchitectureAU about his nearly-complete mosque in Punchbowl that features 99 dome-shaped reliefs.
