Holy Rosary Church Complex by Trahan Architects
The design of the Holy Rosary Complex-comprised of an oratory, administrative building, and religious education building-for a rural Catholic Parish in South Louisiana, is an honest exploration of form, function, light and materials that results in an engaging and profound study in sacred space. Neither opulent nor austere, Holy Rosary Chapel presents a thoughtful meditation on sacred spaces and the spatial embodiment of spiritual experience.
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AR magazine issue August 2009
In this month’s AR Kieran Long looks at Alvaro Siza’s new pavilion at the Insel Hoimbroich Foundation, the latest addition to a modern art campus in an extraordinary post-military landscape in the Ruhr. Up in Anchorage, in remotest Alaska, David Chipperfield’s latest art museum has just opened and Brian Carter investigates how to make a distinguished new civic building in a harsh frontier town. Catherine Slessor visits Granada to see Alberto Campo Baeza’s new Andalusian Museum of Memory, a characteristically reductivist composition which duels with his earlier headquarters for the Caja Granada.
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House in Kitakamakura by Suppose Design Office
Among the plots of land for sale in Kita Kamakura there are some sites in the outskirts which at first glance have the- negative condition of being uneven. This is a plan to create an appealing living space by building directly over that- uneven land. From an architectural standpoint, with an upper and lower level, the influence of the footing and other aspects- cause too many uncertainties in the support of the retaining wall.
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