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Why the new needs repetition
Repetition need not mean retreating into the familiar. It can give the new the very chance it needs to become more than an announcement.
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Church reuse
3 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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