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21 APRIL 2016 BY TOM WILKINSON TYPOLOGY
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distinct but, alongside the differences, comes a
call for greater tolerance and cohesion. Can the
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The unconsecrated chapel in Abney Park Cemetery, London, the first non-
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The problem of deistic multiple-occupancy becomes pressing
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only where faiths meet in a climate of mutual toleration,
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which is happening more than ever, even in these fractious
times. But even when believers aren’t killing each other, there LAX Bar, Vie
is little impetus to permanently cohabit – which is at the very Meier, Ute M
least going to raise timetabling issues – unless it is to some Lukas Stopc
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‘at defines a Architects
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place of worship?
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sacrosanct? Must it Josephine i
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worse they turn out, and that the UK, through its amateur
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and parsimonious approach, is the accidental world leader in
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this field.’ Not just in terms of design, but also in number:
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2,000 have been opened here since the millennium – 13 of
them at Heathrow alone. at does this say about the UK – LAX Bar, Vie
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The Olympic Games brings together people from all over the LAX Bar, Vie
world and, hence, adherents of many different faiths. This Meier, Ute M
raises a challenge for host nations, which must find ways of Lukas Stopc
accommodating a wide range of religious demands on site. For 13 APRIL 2020
the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, a dedicated building was
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constructed for this purpose for the first time in the history
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of the Games. It was named after the ‘father’ of three
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religions – Christianity, Islam and Judaism – and comprised
separate spaces to allow for simultaneous use by multiple Typology: N
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rather than the Olympic administration and, as such, since the Josephine i
Games ended it has been converted to exclusively Christian and Virgil A
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facade. The plan of the building is vaguely piscine in character,
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a response to Gehry’s famous sculpture but also, of course, a
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Christian symbol.
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