Modern monastery

Medprostor has covered and partially repaired a 900-year-old Romanesque church in Slovenia, placing an operable roof on top of the open structure.

David Chipperfield Architects has converted an abandoned hospital, previously a monastery, to create Jacoby Studios, an office in Paderborn, Germany.

The church of the Convent de Sant Francesc underwent a multi-phase renovation by David Closes making it a multipurpose cultural facility.

There are architects whose work defines their career, ideology, methodology, and sometimes more but very...

Benedictine Abbeys and music are inextricably linked. The great churches of the Romanesque period were created to send columns of plainsong ...

Thanks to Amelia Tavella Architectes’ restoration and extension project, the Saint-François Monastery in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano has returned to life as an intermingling of past and present. Built in 1480, its ruins and remnants were preserved using an almost archaeological approach. The past flowing into the presentThe past spills over into the present, tradition merges with the modern day – by assuming the perspective of both archaeologist and architect, Amelia Tavella Architectes created…

St. Mary's Cathedral, San Francisco, California by Pier Luigi Nervi (1971)

A cruciform facade marks the new entrance to this museum, which sits on the site of a 15th century monastery near Venice, Italy

Image 20 of 23 from gallery of Tautra Monastery / Jensen & Skodvin Architects.

Just outside Santiago , nestled in the foothills of the Andes Mountains, is the Benedictine Monastery of Las Condes . On a recent trip through Chile , Vicente Muñoz , a photographer and visual artist, set out to capture the singular and spiritual beauty of this architectural masterpiece.