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.
See also:
Dezeen’s review of 2009
Dezeen’s top ten: Dubai projects
Dezeen’s top ten: lighting
Dezeen’s top ten: watches and clocks
Dezeen’s top ten: cardboard projects
Dezeen’s top ten: shops
Dezeen’s top ten: schools
Dezeen’s top ten: pavilions
Dezeen’s top ten: hotels
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Dezeen’s 2008 review
Dezeen’s top ten: glamorous girls
Dezeen’s top ten: Japanese projects
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January 30th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
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
January 30th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
The first looks awesome. Too bad it’s a church.
January 31st, 2010 at 2:17 pm
http://www.makovecz.hu
Famous Hungarian architect. check out his churches too!
January 31st, 2010 at 2:22 pm
agree with mendes, sheer heresy that Zumthor’s chapel is included in this list!!! Should be at the top in my humble opinion….
January 31st, 2010 at 3:30 pm
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!
January 31st, 2010 at 11:57 pm
It woud have been nice to know the aspects of this list, but the absence of Novy Dvur seems also a bit inexplicable.
February 1st, 2010 at 5:53 am
Excellent!
February 1st, 2010 at 9:50 am
Don’t forget to visit this chapel:
http://www.localarchitecture.ch/?menu=projets&projet_id=3
in wood.
February 1st, 2010 at 11:38 am
Great projects
February 1st, 2010 at 1:23 pm
And Corb’s recently completed church in Firminy-Vert, France!
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=3080672
February 1st, 2010 at 3:27 pm
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….
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:05 am
i love the various sensitivities and structural poetry of some of these,
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:44 pm
thats is greating good design for new world…
February 3rd, 2010 at 4:50 am
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
February 23rd, 2010 at 9:48 am
Have a look at:
http://www.smarch.ch/seiten/church.html
The new apostolic church zuchwil by swiss architects smarch…