Architectural Review Asia Pacific

CITY LIFE: A CHURCH OF THE FUTURE

DKO architects completed City Life Knox in late 2017. City Life is a Pentecostal megachurch located in Melbourne, Australia. The church has five locations and a congregation of over 8000 people with weekly services in the municipalities of Knox, Casey, Manningham and Whittlesea.

DKO has built several churches over past 10 years, so has become part of the shifting typography around churches. Contemporary churches are now more about whole communities than they have been for decades. City Life is the fifth church the firm has designed and

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