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exterior of a sikh gurdwara in nyc
Spaces of Service

During the pandemic, Sikh temples have become a model for civic spaces

The Ismaili Center Houston, showing a mesh covered volume

The United States’ first Ismaili Center in Houston unveils its design by Farshid Moussavi Architecture

The grounds of templo mayor
Tacky Tenochtitlan?

Mexico’s foam Aztec pyramid replica draws ridicule online

A rendering of the repurposed Al-Nuri Mosque
Mosul Mistake?

UNESCO’s winning design for Mosul mosque reconstruction sparks outrage in Iraq

mirrored columns at the proposed holocaust memorial at Babyn Yar
Controversy in Kyiv

Plans for immersive $100-million Holocaust memorial in Ukraine ignite backlash

Rendering of a giant observatory against a starry sky; the Thirty Meter Telescope
Shoot for the Stars

Hawaii to begin construction on Northern Hemisphere’s largest telescope

Photo of the Notre Dame Cathedral burning in Paris
From Notre Dame to Now

Why are architects focusing on Notre Dame and not St. Landry Parish?

A rendering of the Thirty Meter Telescope
Starstruck

Hawaiian communities are fighting to keep massive telescope off sacred land

The exterior of Chaffy by Nice One Projects was designed to dissolve the boundary between inside and out.
God's Plan

A design competition brings kaleidoscopic sukkahs to downtown Detroit

Divine style

German photographer Haubitz + Zoche captures colorful Christian churches in Kerala

Biblebau

Museum of the Bible opens near National Mall in Washington, D.C.

RAIC

Bahá’í Temple of South America wins 2017 Innovation in Architecture Award

Back to Shul

A new center for Jewish life in West Philly takes design cues from a menorah

OMA does weddings and bar mitzvahs on Wilshire Boulevard

107 dead in Mecca as crane collapses on Islam’s most sacred mosque, Al-Masjid al-Haram

This miniature Italian Gothic cathedral by Pratt alum Ryan McAmis gets every teeny tiny detail right

Be the one to restore Stamford’s fish-shaped First Presbyterian Church

Wilshire Boulevard Temple announces shortlist for its “Gathering Place” building

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