We've looked at several churches converted into homes, but this example from the Netherlands is truly exceptional! Designed by Dutch firm Zecc Architecten, the church's pipe organ and stained glass (and don't forget the soaring ceiling) have been integrated into a modern residence — I just love the way the stained glass shines colored light into the white interior!
Though I just discovered that this particular design from Zecc Architecten was featured on Apartment Therapy LA in 2008 — it's worth another look!
For more images and architectural drawings see ArchDaily | Church of living / Zecc Architecten.
Images: Cornbread Works
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Very nice. Some more furniture would do the trick.
Sterile, and yet "organ"-ic.
Sorry.
I like a lot. My only concern is the warmth/temperature. Hopefully its radiant heating in the floor.
I like the architecture, but this place is too sterile and cold. Perhaps it feels even colder now, that the weather is getting colder and winter is approaching. For the summer this may feel more refreshing. I however like my space to work comfortable in all the seasons of the year.
Love the stove hood.
A museum, not a home.
god, this place is great! lol.
people get all snarky about photos taken with no stuff. stuff looks like crap. especially other people's stuff. that's why architects stage photos like this, so you can see their work, not their clients' stuff. so, for those who can, imagine how it looks with stuff in it! comfy and cluttered, just for you.
Maybe it's just my tense relationship with a Catholic background, but I can't see ever being at ease here...The dichotomy makes for a striking piece of art. As a livable space, though, it's a bit overdone.
I know that spaces are staged for photographs.
I still think this place is cold and uninviting. Stuff all over would just make it look worse; messy and cluttered and just as big and echo-y and inhuman. I think part of it is all the white and glossy surfaces plus all the modernist furniture (which looks cool, but face it, is not meant to evoke, "cozy").
I've liked the other church conversions AT has featured, but they had more warm textures and colors involved. This place looks like a space ship. That first picture is positively bunker-ish.
Slowdown - I completely agree.
eh it just needs some sheepskin rugs lol
sucks.
Clinical. White. Sterile. Cold.
Next.
Perhaps the interior of the exterior walls should have been retained as original, which would not have been all white. Then this could have been contrasted by the all white new interiors. This certainly would have come off less sterile and perhaps a bit more dramatic.
i'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the fact it is life size, not, a miniature. that said, i find that i want to keep looking at it. there is something very beautiful about the balance of color and the stark furntiure. all very geometric and totally intruiging