places of worship

ARCHITECT Patkau Architects PHOTOS James Dow, unless otherwise noted The Temple of Light sits atop a cliff overlooking Kootenay Lake in British Columbia’s…

My creative practice as an architectural photographer is centred around making evocative images that go beyond a straight documentation of buildings. How can a…

ARCHITECT Woodford Sheppard Architecture PHOTOS Julian Parkinson, Format Films The place of Catholicism in Sheshatshiu—an Innu Federal Reserve north of…

ARCHITECT P3Architecture PHOTOS Patricia Holdsworth Driving across the prairies of Saskatchewan, there is a hypnotic effect to the open horizontality of the…

WINNER OF A 2020 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S MEDAL IN ARCHITECTURE LOCATION Santiago, Chile ARCHITECT Hariri Pontarini Architects At the heart of this building,…

A Taoist temple on the edge of Toronto is delicately balanced atop two dramatically cantilevered platforms.

The 170-year-old Mount Royal Company's landscape-oriented approach comes forward in a new Montreal cemetery.

South America's first Bahá’í Temple is a stunning landmark in the foothills of the Andes mountains—and a feat of architectural detailing and materials…

With congregations declining, many of Canada's churches are on the verge of closing. But changes in ecclesiastical buildings are nothing new—they've been…

A young Quebec firm experiments with a unique program in a heritage setting.

WINNER OF A 2016 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S MEDAL IN ARCHITECTURE

Clifford Wiens’ rural Silton Chapel is suffering from worrisome deterioration, a plight that Bernard Flaman says it shares with many of Canada’s Modernist…