MVRDV and Zecc Architecten have won a competition to transform St. Francis of Assisi Church in Heerlen, the Netherlands, into ...

Influential Dutch studio MVRDV has been chosen to radically renovate a disused church. The former place of worship is being ...

In the south of the Netherlands, the church of Saint Francis of Assisi in Heerlen will be filled with water and transformed into a public swimming pool by 2027. But that won't be its only function.