This project is the postgraduate thesis designed by Liu Chien Sheng. It is a cathedral proposal for Vienna as a new idea for societal multi-function, and the development of sanctity and form. The site is located in St. Stephen’s Cathedral which is the center of economy, culture, and traffic for the city.

New cathedrals integrates the surrounding societal functions, such as religious, art, commercial activities, tourism and traffic system. The church of this project is placed on the ground floor, theaters and department store on the upper floor of the basement. All the layers are divided by glass floor, and thus, the activities in different level generate visual overlap by the transparence of glass floor. People can experience the new cathedral through variety of spaces. This design is more appropriate style for the cathedral which is required to have multiple functions in modern human life.

The form of architecture comes from the reserved altar structure of St. Stephen’s Cathedral. After defining the principle of the transformation, the basic column structure was reformed into various types and generates the spaces in different parts of columns to accomplish the catalogs of typologies. Read the rest of this entry »

Out of over 715 submissions from 55 countries, a jury consisting of architects Daniel Liebeskind, Richard Meier, Wendy Evans Joseph, and holocaust scholars James E. Young, Paul B. Winkler, and Clifford Chanin, selected Julian King architect as one of six finalists for the Atlantic City Boardwalk Holocaust Memorial – winner will be announced in November.

An ethereal wall of over 100,000 glass bottles representing those who survived the Nazi death camps, each with a personal message, rises out of the sand as a glimmering beacon of hope and testament to human resilience in the face of atrocity.

A call is put out for letters and photographs of the survivors, their words and images to be etched into solid bottles cast from recycled glass. Local students participate in the preliminary assembly of the bottle walls, which are then bound together in an innovative post tensioned design. Built by the community and the world, the memorial attests to the fragile but enduring bonds of humanity. Read the rest of this entry »