Slideshow: stripy monochrome triangles are folded into facets around the walls and ceiling of this church hall in Linz, Austria, to create a cavernous interior. More »

Hong Kong firm O Studio Architects have completed a stark concrete church on the side of a sacred mountain in China. More »

London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. More »

German architects Astoc have completed a monastery extension in Duisberg Duisburg with walls that fold around the entrance like origami sculptures. More »

Belgian architects Pieterjan Gijs and Arnout Van Vaerenbergh have completed a see-through church in Limburg, Belgium. More »

Steel whirlpools spiral into skylights in the roof of a church in Austria by architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. More »

Photographer Filippo Poli has sent us these images of a Milan church with a grey, striped exterior by Italian studio Cino Zucchi Architetti. More »

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has added stacked layers of white marble to create a podium in this Romanesque church in France. More »

Stained glass panels perforate the exterior wall of this church in Paris by ENIA Architects, creating rectangles of colour on the interior of the double-height nave. More »

Avanto Architects of Helsinki have designed this whitewashed funeral chapel with a copper roof in Vantaa, Finland. More »

Grégory Lacoua and Jean Sébastien Lagrange of French design studio John Doe designed furniture for this Parisian chapel, which has been renovated by French architects 3box. More »

Alfonso Architects have designed a church in Tampa, Florida using the Fibonacci sequence to generate the proportions. More »

Dutch studio Ruud Visser Architects have tranformed a 1930s church into a house in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. More »

Designers Gijs Van Vaerenbergh have suspended a network of chains to create an upside-down dome inside this church in Leuven, Belgium. More »