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Chapel of St Lawrence Vantaa, Finland Avanto Arkkitehdit

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1 November 2011

Chapel of St Lawrence Vantaa, Finland Avanto Arkkitehdit

The archetypal monastic cloister anchors and structures the new building in the landscape

Val Notre-Dame Abbey by Atelier Pierre Thibault, Saint-Jean-De-Martha, Quebec, Canada Subscription Required

21 December 2010 | By Catherine Slessor

The changing landscape, light, and even passing wildlife become the focus of the monks’ daily offices of prayer. Photography by Alain Laforest

The laterite fieldstone temple is an abstracted remnant of a traditional Indian shikhara. Cut to form a gentle camber, the stones are left rough on the inner face

Shiv Temple by Sameep Padora & Associates, Wadeshwar, Maharashtra, India Subscription Required

24 November 2010

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Shiv Temple sits on a neatly clipped plateau overlooking Andhra Lake

Shiv Temple by Sameep Padora & Associates, Wadeshwar, Maharashtra, India Subscription Required

23 August 2010 | By Rob Gregory

Padora donates his time and expertise to build a temple for the Hindu community of Wadeshwar. Photography by Edmund Sumner

AR 1961 June − Dominican Monastery of La Tourette by Le Corbusier, Eveux-Sur-Arbresle, France by Colin Rowe Subscription Required

3 June 2010 | By Colin Rowe

[ARCHIVE] Colin Rowe’s essay on Le Corbusier’s La Tourette Monastery, first published June 1961

Rust and violet clinker brick gives the facades a subtle, tweed-like appearance. A framed campanile and brickwork crosses hint at the church’s function

Diakonie Church and Nursing Home by Baumschlager Eberle, Düsseldorf, Germany Subscription Required

14 May 2010 | By Catherine Slessor

The simple and sober architecture of the new Church and nursing home unassumingly slip into Düsseldorf’s existing cityscape. Photography by Eduard Hueber

Surrounded by a tranquil pool, the church is symbolically separated from its surroundings. The patchwork pattern of the zinc tiled roof is the sole concession to ornament in an assiduously austere building

Church of Sky by Itami Jun Architects, Jeju Island, South Korea Subscription Required

1 February 2010 | By Catherine Slessor

An austere and simple Korean Christian Church. Photography by Shinichi Sato

AR 1967 June − Metropolitan Cathedral by Frederick Gibberd and Partners, Liverpool, UK Subscription Required

January 2010 | By Nicholas Taylor

[ARCHIVE] Nicholas Taylor’s essay on Frederick Gibberd’s Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, first published June 1967. Photography by Henk Snoek and John Mills

The chapel sits at the apex of the composition and features rammed earth, concrete and a timber soffit

Copalita School and Open Space by 128A Architecture & Urban Design, Huatulco, Mexico Subscription Required

1 December 2009 | By Rob Gregory

128A Architecture & Urban Design’s civic centre containing a chapel, school and kindergarten provides vital community space for a popular tourist hotspot. Photography by Alejandro Gutíerrez

Clad in cracked tiles, the church resembles a ceramic marquee

Chapel of Cristo Salvador by Supersudaka, Talca, Chile Subscription Required

1 December 2009 | By Catherine Slessor

Supersudaka’s ceramic-tile clad tent-like structure is home to a new Catholic church. Photography by Cristobal Palma

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Brad Pitt's pet project fails to deliver Subscription Required

30 January 2012 | By Rhys Gwilym

Film star turned aspiring architect tries to Make It Right in New Orleans with disappointing results

House in Komazawa and Pilotis in a Forest_Japan_Go Hasegawa

Comparing two small houses by Go Hasegawa in Japan Subscription Required

22 December 2011 | By Andrew Wilson

Two dwellings display an equally deft approach to the constraints of the suburb and the freedom of the forest

Hempcrete Walls

Glen Howells Architects challenge conventions of volume house building Subscription Required

20 December 2011 | By Crispin Kelly

Conceived as an exemplary riposte to the dreariness and mediocrity of most volume housebuilding, this new residential scheme in Swindon actively engages with ideas about community, sustainability and place

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