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Windhover Contemplative Center by Aidlin Darling Design

Palo Alto, California

Lydia Lee

February 15, 2015

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At Stanford University, a student retreat is also a meditation on architecture.

St. Bartholom'us Church

Heaven and Earth: A firm turns a 1960s church into a place of final repose and, once again, worship.

Mary Pepchinski

February 15, 2015

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A firm turns a 1960's church into a place of final repose and, once again, worship.

Crystal Cathedral Renovation

Deborah Snoonian Glenn

December 16, 2014

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For years, Philip Johnson's glass-skinned Crystal Cathedral in Garden Grove, California'completed in 1981 for televangelist Robert Schuller and his Reformed Church in America'operated as a broadcasting venue as well as a house of worship.

Sancaklar Mosque

Call to Prayer: Using rugged materials and a modern design vocabulary, an architect creates a place of worship that connects the essence of Islam with contemporary life.

Clifford A. Pearson

May 16, 2014

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In most of the Muslim world, the dome and minaret signify the mosque, acting as symbols that transcend linguistic and cultural barriers.

A Grand Opening for Renzo Piano's Controversial Expansion at Ronchamp Chapel

Tim McKeough

September 15, 2011

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Photo ' Michel Denanc' Related Links: Piano's Plans for Corbu Landmark Spark Debate Journalists, officials, and curious locals gathered last week at Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, to celebrate the opening of a quiet new visitors’ center and convent designed by Renzo Piano—a project that incited fierce debate when it was first announced in 2008. Opponents feared the addition would distract from the power of Corbusier's sculptural masterpiece. Piano, who attended the inauguration ceremony, which stretched from September 8–11, told RECORD that he has enhanced the 4.9-acre property by creating facilities that support