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“Christkönigkirche”, or Christ the King Catholic Church, in Saarlouisis exemplary in many respects. To start with, it was built at the end of the 1960s to provide enough space to accommodate a growing Catholic community in the district of Roden. It was designed by architect Günter Kleinjohann in the “New Brutalism” style, where by “brutal” is not used here with the English meaning, but rather inreference to “béton brut” – i.e. “exposed concrete” in French. Nowadays, for most of the year, the place of worship serves as a play area for a nursery school.
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Concrete "Monster" Saved
“Christkönigkirche”, or Christ the King Catholic Church, in Saarlouisis exemplary in many respects. To start with, it was built at the end of the 1960s to provide enough space to accommodate a growing Catholic community in the district of Roden. It was designed by architect Günter Kleinjohann in the “New Brutalism” style, where by “brutal” is not used here with the English meaning, but rather inreference to “béton brut” – i.e. “exposed concrete” in French. Nowadays, for most of the year, the place of worship serves as a play area for a nursery school.
info: www.german-architects.com/de/architecture-news/bau-der-wo...
© All rights reserved - Don't use my images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission