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"On-The-Boards" and Under Construction Projects
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Saint Clare of Assisi (visit)
Surprise AZ (2006 - )
in association with CCBG Architects, Phoenix AZ

Fr. Hans Ruygt, pastor of St. Clare of Assisi has engaged LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to work with the local architecture firm of CCBG to design the new 1600 seat parish church for the growing community in Surprise Arizona. The project is currently entering the interior design development phase.

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Our Lady of Solitude Monastery (visit)
Tonopah AZ (2006 - )
in association with SSPW Architects, Scottsdale AZ

LITURGICAL ENVIRONS has been working closely with the Scottsdale-based firm of SSPW Architects to bring forth a new monastery for "The Phoenix Phive" -- a small band of gifted young Poor Clares who are pioneering a new monastery in the desert 60 miles west of Phoenix.

When completed, the monastery will be a full "papal enclosure" under Canon Law, and will be the sisters' permanent home.

Sitting on 40 acres of Sonoran desert land, atop an underground aquifer that will supply water for residential and agrarian uses, the complex will include a chapel and visitors' center, and facilities for 30 nuns.

Please visit the sisters' website at DesertNuns.Org for more information and the opportunity to donate to their good works.

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Saints Anne and Joachim Catholic Church (visit)
Fargo ND (2006 - )
in association with Zerr Berg Associates, Fargo ND

Fr. Brian Bachmeier, pastor of Sts. Anne and Joachim, asked Steven Schloeder of LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to assist in the planning of their new 1200 seat, $8.5 million permanent church, which is to be the final phase of their impressive facility that already houses the social hall, administration, minstery and educational needs.

Schloeder worked with the building committee to program the new church, and then assisted in the selection process for the Architect of Record, the talented local firm of Zerr Berg Architects.

The community's "cultural memory" of Catholic architecture was formed by the robust neo-Gothic churches built throughout the upper midwest by the northern European immigrants from Germany and Scandanavia.

The project has recently completed the initial Schematic Design Phase.

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Cathedral of St. Mary (visit)
Fargo, ND (2006 - )
in association with Zerr Berg Associates, Fargo ND

Bishop Aquila requested LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to propose designs for the liturgical reordering of the Cathedral of St. Mary in Fargo.

What began as the need to relocate the tabernacle from the side altar to a place of prominence in the sanctuary has given rise to the opportunity to provide better access, a more dignified sanctuary, a new canopy for the cathedra, and a new ambo and lectern.

Design elements from the original 1890s balcony rail were incorporated into the edge wall at the sanctuary to create a more unified sense to the whole space.

The project is soon to start construction, and is anticipated to be completed in Spring 2008.

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Saint Anthony Catholic Church (visit)
Winters, CA (2005 - )
in association with McCandless Architects , Woodlawn CA

LITURGICAL ENVIRONS has teamed up with McCandless Architects to design the new 700 seat, $6 million mission style church for the community of St. Anthony in Winters CA (Diocese of Sacramento).


The community has outgrown their post-war church, and is finally relocating to the 5 acre site that now houses thier parish offices and social hall.
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Saint Paul Catholic Church (visit)
Pensacola, Florida (2003 - )
in association with Bullock-Tice Associates, Pensacola FL

In the Summer of 2003, Saint Paul Catholic Church in Pensacola Florida asked LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to assist in the architect selection and planning of their new church facility. We helped to organize and administrate a limited architectural competition among qualified local firms, provided assistance to the competitors in the development of their proposals, and have since been working closely with the winning firm, Bullock Tice Associates, in the continued design of their winning entry.

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Saint Mark Catholic Church (visit)
Denton Texas (2003 - )

The parish of Saint Mark Catholic Church in Denton Texas has hired LITURGICAL ENVIRONS for parish visioning, liturgical education, architectural programming, and schematic design for their future expansion project to include a new church to seat 1200, and new social, educational, and administrative facilities.

 
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Holy Family Cathedral (visit)
Anchorage Alaska (2003 - )

In association with Koonce Pfeffer Bettis, Anchorage AK

LITURGICAL ENVIRONS was recently selected as the Liturgical Consultant for the renovation and expansion of Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage Alaska.

Currently in Master Planning phase, we are working closely with the Architect of Record, Koonce Pfeffer Bettis of Anchorage, in a multi-phase design to address issues of accessibility, increased capacity, new office, educational services and rectory.

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Completed Projects
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Saint Therese Catholic Church
Collinsville, Oklahoma (1996-2000)

After the small yet vibrant parish of St. Therese's realized they had outgrown their existing building, Fr. Patrick Brankin enlisted LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to plan and design their new 360-seat church. With a tight budget constraint for an agrarian community, we worked together to design this strong, compact, spacious, well articulated, and efficient building. This project was formally consecrated on The Feast of the Little Flower, 1 October 2000, in the Jubilee Year.

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Holy Apostles Catholic Church (visit)
Meridian, Idaho (2000 - 2001)
in association with Glancey Rockwell Architects, Boise ID

When the Catholic communities in Eagle and Meridian, Idaho, were faced with the need to merge into one larger parish, they engaged GLANCEY/ROCKWELL of Boise as their architects. The challenge for the community and the architects was "to create a new place of worship that both worked as and looked like a Catholic church."

Our firm of LITURGICAL ENVIRONS was therefore brought on board as an integral member of the design team to educate both the parish and the architects in the areas of liturgy and canon law, architectural history, and Catholic architectural thought, and to set the course early in the schematic design phase to help the architects achieve the parish's vision.

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Saint Mark Catholic Church (visit)
Peoria Illinois (2000-2002)
in association with LZT Architects, Peoria IL
interior painting by Murals by Jericho, Bartonville, IL

As part of a major capital campaign, St. Mark Catholic Church engaged LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to work with the long-range planning committee and to provide schematic design direction. The plans call for the refurbishing of the interior (from an unfortunate 1970s remodel), design for accessibility, a more gracious entrance, more spaces for devotional life, and a new Daily Mass Chapel.

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Saint Anthony Catholic Church
Phoenix Arizona (1995 - 1996)

In 1995, Steven Schloeder was approached by the pastor of Saint Anthony Catholic Church, an inner city ethnic parish, to design a new Daily Mass and Eucharistic Adoration Chapel from the former rectory garage. This project, incorporating fine sandstone veneer on the "Sacrament Tower" and Chinese slate flooring, was built entirely with donated materials and labor by the parish community.

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Unrealized Designs

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Saint Anthony Catholic Church (visit)
Anchorage, Alaska (2004 - )

 

Saint Anthony Catholic Church asked LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to propose a new "vision design" for their existing mid 60s church. Issues of accessibility, sanctuary design, baptistery, music, devotional life, and aesthetics are now being considered.

As part of the process, we have created surveys to elicit interest, incorporate feedback, and build consensus within entire parish.

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Saint Peter Catholic Church (visit)
Lemoore, California (2003 - )
in association with Form4 Architects, San Francisco CA

LITURGICAL ENVIRONS has been working closely with Form 4 Architects, Inc of San Francisco to provide liturgical consultancy, architectural design, parish visioning, and sacred art coordination services for the new parish complex at Saint Peter Catholic Church in Lemoore California.

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Saint Joseph Catholic Church
Modesto California (2002)
in association with Form4 Architects, San Francisco CA

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Saint Francis Xavier Catholic Church
Spokane Washington (1997 - 1998)

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Saint Rose of Lima Catholic Church (visit)
Paso Robles, California (2000 - 2001)

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The Cathedral of Christ the Light (visit)
Oakland California (2000-)
In association with Skidmore Owings Merrill LLP (San Francisco)

In a limited architectural competition, the Catholic Diocese of Oakland invited SKIDMORE OWINGS MERRILL SAN FRANCISCO LLP to propose designs for a new 1800 seat cathedral to replace the one lost in the 1988 earthquake. Mr. Craig Hartman FAIA of SOM invited Steven Schloeder of LITURGICAL ENVIRONS to participate in the design team as the Liturgical Consultant. In this successful competition entry, our primary contribution was to educate the highly talented SOM design team in the theological, liturgical, and architectural principles of Catholic church design.

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