Blankpage Architects designs concrete church in Lebanon to complement 18th-century chapel

Blankpage Architects has built a church with a rooftop amphitheatre in Lebanon, being careful not to overshadow the historic chapel next door.
The concrete Saint-Charbel Church is located in Zakrit, a small town over looking the Mediterranean Sea.The church sits alongside a small limestone-vaulted chapel, which was built in the 18th-century. Lebanese studio Blankpage Architects wanted to ensure that the new, much larger structure would complement the old building.
"Above everything else, the old