Adaptive reuse is actually a hybrid of building types, one that integrates the construction techniques used in restoration, preservation, retrofitting, and new construction. Globally, a vast inventory ...

On the rainy Sunday morning in early December 1962, when the first parishioners walked through the cave-like front door of St. Stephen United Methodist Church, there was no building quite like it in ...

Holy Name Cathedral in Steubenville, Ohio, first constructed in 1890 and extensively rebuilt in 1957. (Wikimedia Commons) Anyone who has spent time in a Catholic church of any architectural style has ...

The most beautiful churches are those that both capture the eye and make the viewer feel something. The act of constructing sacred sites has been a defining characteristic of human culture since the ...

Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland in Świdnica. Architect: Marian Tunikowski. Photo: Igor Snopek. Image Over 3,000 churches were built in Poland between 1945 and 1989, despite the socialist state’s ...

Churches may be closing to the faithful amid the coronavirus outbreak, but the spiritual sustenance they provide continues with livestreamed Masses, prayer services and processions, which reveal the ...

A church, said Victor Hugo, is "a book in stone." And what —on Easter Sunday or any other Sunday — do we read there? Consider a Gothic cathedral like Notre-Dame, which also happens to be the very ...

Our campus is built around a cathedral. Walk down blocks of healthy palms, stroll along the grassy oval and climb the sandstone steps. Stroll past despairing statues, proud pillars and sloped clay ...