Dutch companies MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have been selected to design a renovation of the  St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, south east Netherlands, into a public swimming pool…

The main dome of the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul is to undergo the most extensive restoration in its 1,488-year history. One of the main aims of the work…

Italian contractors Webuild and Vianini Lavori have completed an 18-month restoration of the 16th Century Church of Santa Maria di Loreto in Rome’s historic centre. The project was part of…

A team made up of Ireland’s Heneghan Peng Architects, Germany’s Ralph Appelbaum Associates and Scottish artist Susan Philipsz has won a competition to design an expansion of the Kaiser Wilhelm…

Starting next year, churches, mosques, and synagogues in California will be able to build social housing on land they own without environmental or other local planning reviews. A law colloquially…

Saint Sarkis Armenian Church in Texas, designed by New York architect David Hotson, has been selected as America’s building of last year in an online poll. The survey was carried…

A redesign of the St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, which was destroyed by the collapse of the Twin Towers during the 9/11 attacks in New York, has reopened to the…