This month's top ten features Dezeen's most popular stories about churches, starting with this concrete project in Foligno, Italy, by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas Architects.
2: at number two is this wooden shingle-clad church by Polish designers Beton, located in a small village overlooking the Vistula.
3: occupying the number three slot is the Farewell Chapel by Slovenian practice OFIS Arhitekti near Ljubljana in Slovenia.
4: fourth most popular is Dove of Peace by Beijing studio Sunlay Design, a church designed for Ordos in Inner Mongolia that has a plan based on a bird in flight.
5: fifth most popular is Sta Columbine Chapel in Bragança, Portugal, designed by architect Luis Ferreira Rodrigues of Porto.
6: the renovation of the Lumen United Reformed Church in London by Theis and Khan Architects comes in sixth.
7: next up is a competition-winning design for a new Macedonian Orthodox church for Zagreb by Croatian architects Bif-Studio.
8: eighth place goes to Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky for this church interior refurbishment in Eastern Bohemia, using customised design classics, rugs and chandeliers.
9: ninth is the reconstruction of a Catholic Church in Geroldswil near Zürich by Swiss architects Stemmle Architekten.
10: finally, our tenth most popular story about a church is Providence Chapel in Wiltshire, England, by Jonathan Tuckey Design.
That's it for now. Another top ten coming up next month.
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where is the chapel of Peter Zumthor!??…the bruder klaus chapel
http://www.mimoa.eu/projects/Germany/Wachendorf/Bruder%20Klaus%20Chapel
i don’t believe
The first looks awesome. Too bad it’s a church.
http://www.makovecz.hu
Famous Hungarian architect. check out his churches too!
agree with mendes, sheer heresy that Zumthor’s chapel is included in this list!!! Should be at the top in my humble opinion….
http://wiki.utikonyvem.hu/hu/index.php?title=K%C3%A1polna_(S%C3%A9nye)
A small zion in a small Hungarian village, Sénye. Designed by Vadász György. Check it!
It woud have been nice to know the aspects of this list, but the absence of Novy Dvur seems also a bit inexplicable.
Excellent!
Don’t forget to visit this chapel:
http://www.localarchitecture.ch/?menu=projets&projet_id=3
in wood.
Great projects
And Corb’s recently completed church in Firminy-Vert, France!
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3080672
Every one of these architectures looks unique and lovely…because architects are inspired and motivated in quite a different manner when they design a chapel/church, or because we know it is not vacant inside….
i love the various sensitivities and structural poetry of some of these,
thats is greating good design for new world…
might i suggest next time doing a separate list for chapels, as their function and purpose is vastly different from that of regular churches… m2c
Have a look at:
http://www.smarch.ch/seiten/church.html
The new apostolic church zuchwil by swiss architects smarch…
i tend to think Richard Meier’s Jubilee Church ain’t bad.
http://www.richardmeier.com/www/#/projects/architecture/visual/2/132/0/
The wooden one by Beton is humble as a church should always be. Great job.