Honoured at the Te Kāhui Whaihanga Architecture Awards at the Embassy Theatre earlier this month, our Lady of Kāpiti Parish Church by DLA Architects was one of the winners in the Public Architecture category. The building collects and connects two Kāpiti parishes and three former churches under one roof with the design showing the parishes’ Read more
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Two Church schools in Christchurch win architects’ awards
Thursday, June 14th, 2018
Two Church schools were among the buildings recognised at the Canterbury Architecture Awards last week. Catherine McAuley Centre at Villa Maria College received an award in the public architecture category. The jury noted of this project, “The building’s pleated corten cladding references the memory of Catherine McAuley and her protective shawl and provides an exterior that Read more
Tomb with a view wins award
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016Auckland’s most stylish new buildings have been announced and a smart empty mausoleum is the most unusual winner in the big lineup. Apartments, houses, office blocks, a library and other public buildings are on the list of the Institute of Architects’ Auckland branch winners, The biggest surprise in the top 48 buildings was an anonymous Read more
Chch bishop: Modernist church designs haven’t helped liturgy
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
Generally, modernist styles of church design have not served the liturgy well, the Bishop of Christchurch has written in a new document. Bishop Barry Jones has issued “The House of God”, to inform and guide Christchurch diocese in the task of building churches. Aimed at parishes wanting to build or repair and strengthen a church Read more
Whimsical Churches in Far-Flung Polynesia
Tuesday, October 29th, 2013
If you travel to some of the remotest islands of Polynesia, churches are probably not uppermost in your mind — sensuous wahines perhaps, slowly gyrating grass-skirted hips, lilting music, Edenic beaches, but churches? Yet they are among the more striking sights you’ll find on the furthest-flung islands in the South Pacific. It’s hard to get Read more
Congregation for Divine Worship is restructured
Friday, November 16th, 2012
The Vatican’s Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments has been restructured. The main change is an office to promote the development and use of appropriate liturgical art, architecture and music. The office will provide advice, encouragement and guidance, but it will not attempt to impose specific styles, according to Marist Father Anthony Ward, undersecretary Read more
Crackdown on church architecture imminent
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Following on from a new translation of the Mass in English, Vatican Insider reports the Congregation for Divine Worship will establish a new team to regulate church architecture and promote singing in the liturgy. The team will be tasked to put a stop to garage-style churches and boldly shaped structures and, it is reported, will have Read more