Hamburg, Germany – Angular, asymmetrical, colorful and just plain extraordinary, there are modern churches that will have one looking in vain for a traditional steeple. All around the world, ...

Church design may be the only kind of architecture that you learn about in the nursery. “Here’s the church, here’s the steeple…” Well, here is the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, the immense new ...

Consider a Gothic cathedral like Notre-Dame — so tragically mutilated this week — which also happens to be the very church that Hugo, in "The Hunchback of Notre-Dame," was talking about. That design ...

In a rapidly urbanizing China, some houses of worship are taking inspiration from the Bible while rethinking local architectural tradition. A scroll-shaped steeple. An imposing ark-shaped atrium. A ...

Traditionalists frowned when St. Columba opened in St. Paul's Midway area in 1950. Flat-roofed, with slab limestone walls, slit windows and a floor plan shaped like a fish — an early Christian symbol ...

From Lafond Avenue, on the building’s south side, the first thing that catches the eye is the tall Irish tower. … but our independent journalism isn’t free to produce. Help us keep it this way with a ...

The project team uses creativity and modern techniques to ensure Gaudi’s masterpiece lasts well into the next century.

Salt Lake City-based design practice Sparano + Mooney Architecture designed a church for West Valley City, Utah that’s strikingly modern yet sensitive to the existing site context. Located near ...

While the Second Vatican Council has produced great fruit for the Catholic Church, it must be admitted that there have also been some disastrous consequences. One of the most negative results has been ...