Al-Azhar Islamic Foundation is planning an expansion of their facility that will include demolition of an existing one-story ranch building currently used for worship. The new design is centered on an interior courtyard and includes an Education Wing with 7 classrooms, 2 seminar rooms, a library...
JNKA recently completed a feasibility study for Mary, Seat of Wisdom School in Park Ridge, looking at ways to provide a secure entrance into the existing school. The preferred scheme creates a vestibule addition that facilitates screening of visitors during school hours. A pass-through window...
JNKA recently completed a Master Plan for St. Christina Parish in Chicago. Updates to the campus include a new 9,000 sf addition to the school which will serve as the main entrance as well as house school offices, meeting rooms and 4 new classrooms. Project...
JNKA designed this conversion of existing office space into a vibrant and welcoming gathering area that provides this active church community with a dynamic and inviting space for connecting the congregation and visitors. The design employs white curvilinear ceiling planes positioned over a coordinated meandering...
Proposed design of coffee shop by JNKA & Associates, Ltd. for St. Gregory’s Episcopal Church in Deerfield, Illinois. The coffee shop is to be located within the 1965 chapel addition of the original 1953 church. The design renovates underutilized interior spaces to create an 1,100...
The Darien Center is a new two-story residence providing spiritual formation for both non-members and members of the Opus Dei. Reverence for the Holy Eucharistic was the guiding principle for JNKA’s neo-classical chapel design, which features a two-story volume articulated by Doric pilasters, a continuous...
The goal of this interior renovation was to beautify the former all-white and poorly lit church while heightening the sense of the Sacred with color, pattern and architectural elements to differentiate the Sanctuary from the Nave and visually accentuate the liturgical furnishings, tabernacle and Marian...
This new church replaced a temporary worship space and achieved the parish’s goal of building a traditional Catholic church for its growing community. The design of the 800-seat church was influenced by Romanesque architecture, and its durable materials reflect the church’s namesake as the Rock...
JNKA served as Design Architect and Liturgical Designer for this new 7,200 s.f., 270-seat chapel at the heart of Aquinas College’s campus in a Romanesque style to reflect the Dominican tradition and call to come together in community, prayer and worship. The Romanesque exterior design,...
Windmoor Study Center is a new 23,000 s.f., three-story Opus Dei center that provides a new 16 bed residence with a family atmosphere and spiritual formation for men and students at Notre Dame. JNKA was commissioned to design the new 1350 s.f. oratory for the...