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Bochum

2 articles from all sections, newest first.

BACKGROUND

After the Art Festival: Who Takes Over the Church?

After Manifesta, Bochum’s Christ-König church is once again at the centre of a question about its future. Architectural designs suggest possible cultural uses — but a venue only becomes viable when local need, operations and construction costs align.

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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN

After the service: who sustains the open church?

Thirty architecture graduates are devising new uses for five churches in the Ruhr region. But Bochum’s Christ-König-Kirche shows that a compelling spatial concept does not yet answer who will pay for conversion and running costs — or who will keep the doors open.

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