Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: Vietnamese architect Vo Trong Nghia has revealed that he makes his staff meditate every day to help them "resist cravings and improve concentration". More about Meditating twice a day keeps staff at Vo Trong Nghia Architects focused, claims founder
This spiritual refuge by Aidlin Darling Design at California's Stanford University features vertical cedar slats and thick walls made of soil excavated from the building site (+ slideshow). More about Aidlin Darling creates a meditation centre at Stanford University with rammed-earth walls
A faceted golden nodule protrudes from one side of this art studio in Warsaw, providing a secluded meditation space for Polish sculptor Pawel Althamer (+ slideshow). More about Warsaw art studio features meditation space inside "deformed golden object"
This wooden folly cantilevers across a garden lake to create a meditation room and children's play den for a family living in Hampshire, England (+ slideshow). More about The Forest Pond House by TDO
Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow). More about Buddhist Meditation Centre Metta Vihara by Bureau SLA
A music recital room resembling a Japanese tea house hangs like a lantern in the garden of a residence northwest of Washington DC. More about Tea House by David Jameson
The v-shaped roof of this Illinois tea house by architect Jeffery Poss funnels rainwater to a spout over the adjacent pond. More about Victor meditation hut by Jeffery Poss
Toronto-based designer Daniel Simmons has designed a conceptual shrine for meditation called Contemporary Pagoda. More about Contemporary Pagoda by Daniel Simmons
Meditation House is a project from 2006 by Mexican architects Pascal Arquitectos. More about Meditation House by Pascal Arquitectos