{"id":297516,"date":"2025-11-21T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297516\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:55:11","slug":"snug-architects-unveils-design-for-uks-largest-christian-monument","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297516\/","title":{"rendered":"Snug Architects unveils design for UK’s largest Christian monument"},"content":{"rendered":"

Work has begun on a looped Christian landmark named the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which was designed by UK studio Snug Architects<\/a>\u00a0to rise over 50 metres in Warwickshire<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Snug Architects<\/a> designed the sculptural, ribbon-like structure as a M\u00f6bius strip \u2013 a continuous concrete<\/a> band that curves and twists in a loop.<\/p>\n

\"EternalSnug Architects has designed a looped monument for the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer<\/p>\n

The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer<\/a> will top out at 51.5 metres tall and be 80 metres wide, which will make it the largest piece of Christian art in the UK when it completes in 2028.<\/p>\n

Footpaths and landscaped areas will surround the wall, and elsewhere on the site will be a visitor centre and a 24\/7 prayer room.<\/p>\n

\"EternalIts design takes the form of a M\u00f6bius strip<\/p>\n

Set to be built near Coleshill, the monument will be made up of 188 differently shaped precast concrete elements clad in one million white bricks.<\/p>\n

Each brick on the looping wall will represent the story of an answered prayer, which visitors will be able to read via a mobile app.<\/p>\n

\"RenderThe curving structure will be clad in one million bricks<\/p>\n

The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer was designed to inspire hope and prayer among visitors and those passing by on the adjacent M6 and M42 motorways.<\/p>\n

Snug Architects director Paul Bulkeley said the idea for the M\u00f6bius strip design came to him while he was praying.<\/p>\n

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“I am a Christian, and when faced with a significant work challenge, it is my normal practice to pray and ask Jesus for inspiration,” he told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“On this occasion, I pondered the brief, ‘one million bricks is 15,000 square metres, which creates a 7.5 kilometre garden wall’ \u2013 that is totally uninspiring and inaccessible,” he continued. “I prayed, and the M\u00f6bius strip popped into my head.”<\/p>\n

“A simple wall was transformed into a highly dynamic, gently enclosing yet open and inviting courtyard that twisted through the air.”<\/p>\n

\"RenderThe Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer will be over 50 metres tall<\/p>\n

Snug Architects was commissioned to design the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer in 2016, when it won a global competition held by the Royal Institute of British Architects<\/a> (RIBA). Construction has now commenced, after the \u00a340 million fundraising target was met.<\/p>\n

Bulkeley said the brief for the structure specified that it should not feature obvious Christian symbolism, which the M\u00f6bius strip achieved.<\/p>\n

\"RenderFootpaths and gardens will surround the structure<\/p>\n

“On deeper reflection, this was clearly a beautiful and poetic solution that has proved to be rich with poetic significance and symbolism whilst meeting the brief of being free from explicit Christian symbolism,” said Bulkeley.<\/p>\n

“It was beautifully simple and therefore had the potential to be iconic \u2013 I knew we had something special.”<\/p>\n

Other Christian buildings that have recently been featured on Dezeen include a tiny, aluminium-clad chapel in New Zealand<\/a> and a video of the construction of the tower of Jesus Christ at the Sagrada Familia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The images are by Snug Architects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Work has begun on a looped Christian landmark named the Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, which was designed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297517,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,588,75,49626,49627,49628,133836,3585,80583],"class_list":{"0":"post-297516","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-ca","12":"tag-canada","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-england","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-sectionall","17":"tag-sectionarchitecture","18":"tag-sectionnews","19":"tag-snug-architects","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-worship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}