New Church for St Barnabas, Sydney

April 2nd, 2010

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The design is sympathetic to the site and its history, while offering an outstanding new building for the Church and the community… The new building will support the work and outreach of St Barnabas over the coming decades… [and] will make a significant contribution to local communities and will enhance the streetscape of Broadway and Mountain Streets.
— Ian Powell, Senior Minister at St Barnabas Church

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[Images from http://www.fjmt.com.au/projects/projects_stb.html]

The design, by fjmt, actually reminds me a lot of Tadao Ando’s Church of the Light (with it’s light cruciform made from four slabs of concrete) and Jorn Utzon’s Bagsvard Church (with its coloured concrete curves that disperse light). Either way, I’d definitely like to go and visit the church one day – both during the day and at night with the lights on!


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