Spookiest Architecture
Charleston Naval Hospital District
Soldiers injured during WWII once passed through this important hospital district, but now the buildings face demolition to make way for a proposed rail line. Read more about this and the ten other “Most Endangered Historic Places” of 2016.
Photo © Historic Preservation Society of Charleston
Abandoned World’s Fair Grounds
Oscar Niemeyer’s abandoned masterplan in Lebanon, which has fallen into disrepair, now faces new threats.
Photo © Jack Crosbie
A firm creates devises a simple yet powerful solution to enclose and preserve a deteriorating monument to infamy.
Photo © Susan Schuls
OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu collaborates with artist Taryn Simon on an installation at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City.
Photo © Naho Kubota
College of Charleston Dixie Plantation
A former plantation parsonage becomes an outdoor classroom, but its original burial ground still remains amid live oak trees hung with tendrils of Spanish moss.
Photo © Paul Burk
Baha'i Temple of South America
A ghostly building with a complex skin blooms in the foothills of the Andes thanks to a multinational, multidisciplinary team.
Photo © Hariri Pontarini Architects
Windhover Contemplative Center
A secluded student retreat at Stanford University is also a meditation on architecture.
Photo © Matthew Millman
Sayama Lakeside Cemetery Park Community Hall and Forest Chapel
Two bold yet thoughtful structures elevate the architecture of grieving and remembrance at burial grounds near Tokyo.
Photo © Koji Fujii / Nacasa and Partners
Ethereal vitrines blend into the decaying architecture of a derelict synagogue in Košice, Slovakia like a silent congregation.
Photo © Yuri Dojc
Using rugged materials and a modern design vocabulary, an architect creates an organic and mysterious place of worship.
Photo © Thomas Mayer
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