This bold new design transforms a historic Dutch church into a swimming pool, where you can “walk on water” and lifeguards ...

Through their visionary transformation of a disused church, MVRDV and Zecc Architecten affirm the potential of adaptive reuse ...

Inside the sanctuary of St. Francis Xavier Parish, visitors are greeted by breathtaking beauty that has stood the test of ...

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

Pope Francis declared Antoni Gaudí, architect of the still-unfinished Sagrada Familia basilica, “venerable” this week.

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.

If I told you that I visited Notre-Dame de Paris in March of this year and that, while there, I had begun to get this strange ...

Discover how MVRDV and Zecc Architecten transform a former church into a public swimming pool, merging community needs with ...

Jordi Faulí I Oller is currently the head architect of the basilica, the seventh to hold the position. Several architects who ...