DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For the Joyful Church in Pohang, South Korea, The Beck Group fused ideas from multiple religious, cultural and sustainable sources to create a wholly unique Korean church design experience. The church’s new campus design provides 25,600 m2 (275,000 SF) including a 2,500-seat sanctuary, 800-seat chapel and spaces dedicated to the church’s extensive weekday social and community ministries. Special care was taken to integrate the large facility into the 10.6-acre, densely wooded hillside site.
“As envisioned by the congregation, this facility will make a new statement in the design of Christian churches in Korea,” said Tom Greenwood, a principal with Beck. “It was important that this building draw from traditional Korean cultural elements and a respect for the land, while concurrently expressing the Christian faith in a bold way.”
Beck, who has provided design services for numerous mega churches in the US, has found its services more in demand internationally as well. This is the fourth church project in South Korea by Beck in recent years. Construction on the Joyful Church project is scheduled to begin in late 2011.
For more information contact The Beck Group at tomgreenwood@beckgroup.com.
The Beck Group offers a full spectrum of professional building services including architecture, planning, interior design, construction, and development. Beck, headquartered in Dallas, maintains a team of over 450 employees working among a network of offices in Atlanta, Austin, Denver, Fort Worth, Houston, Mexico City, San Antonio and Tampa. Founded in 1912, the firm has completed projects for leading churches around the US and world including The Potter’s House, Prestonwood Baptist Church, Gateway Church of Southlake, Shinkwang Church (South Korea) and Fellowship Church (Grapevine, Texas), as well as numerous other high-profile projects, including the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, Texas, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California, the Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
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