From the monthly archives: December 2010

Every year Pantone forecasts the most popular color for everything from fashion to interior design. Last year, we enjoyed turquoise (Pantone’s 2010), this next year it’s going to be honeysuckle everywhere!

Pantone Color Institute Executive Director Leatrice Eiseman said, “In times of stress, we need something to lift our spirits. Honeysuckle is a captivating, stimulating color that gets the adrenaline going – perfect to ward off the blues.” It’s already been on the red carpet, as you’ll see below, and it’s showing up in various of shades of cute items right now!

honeysuckleHoneysuckle
Honeysuckle and GreenHGTV (via)
Honeysuckle and LimeHGTV (via)
 

Since the dawn of architecture, man has glorified God by erecting buildings like no other of their time.  The sacred places of the 21st century are no different in they are unlike no other structures of our time,  but unlike their historic counter-parts they are not reflections of painted angels, heavenly reaching spires, and heavy gothic architecture, but of the nature’s elements and principles of space, form, line and light.

From the tiny, yet inspired, Chilean Junquillos Chapel to the Finnish St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel, who’s structure is so surreal there are no words to describe it, Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss brought together  these and 90-some other awe-inspiring examples of the most modern religious architecture of our time.

Purchase Closer to God: Religious Architecture and Sacred Spaces, edited by Robert Klanten and Lukas Feireiss, Gestalten, $69 through; amazon.com. Copyright Gestalten 2010

 

Church of Santo Volto, Turin, Italy Design: Mario Botta


Lumen Centre, London, UK   Design: Theis and Khan Architects


Lilja Chapel of Silence, Portable chapel, Finland  Design: Vesa Oiva


Junquillos Chapel:Junquillos, Biobío, Chile  Design: Baladrón & Grass


St. Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel: Turku, Finland   Design: Sanaksenaho Architects
 

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