Italian studio Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled its design for the Ambrosian Monastery in Milan, which will feature a sleek roof that shelters cloisters and lifts into a sail-like form over the church altar. More about Stefano Boeri Architetti unveils design for Milan monastery with sail-like roof
Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed plans to transform the Plum Village Buddhist Monastery in France's Dordogne region by reconfiguring its layout and introducing timber guesthouses and a nunnery. More about MVRDV unveils plans to revamp Buddhist monastery in France
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has added an angular white-concrete extension to the Monastery of Leça do Balio in Porto to provide "a new landmark" for the site. More about Álvaro Siza adds angular concrete extension to renovated monastery in Porto
A 12th-century monastery in Italy's Umbria region has become a boutique hotel in the hands of Florence studio Archiloop, which aimed to retain the site's "rustic simplicity" during its renovation. More about Archiloop converts 12th-century Italian monastery into hotel Vocabolo Moscatelli
Italian studio Mixtura has created a convent in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil with multiple buildings arranged around open-air cloisters wrapped in a wooden brise soleil. More about Mixtura wraps multi-building Brazilian convent in wooden brise soleil
Network of Architecture has turned a former monastery in Italy into the Monastero Arx Vivendi hotel by conserving and refreshing the interiors and inserting a series of glazed spa rooms into its gardens. More about NOA transforms 17th-century monastery near Lake Garda into hotel and spa
Architecture studio Chybik + Kristof has revealed its design for a pavilion on the site of the greenhouse in Brno where Gregor Mendel discovered genetics. More about Chybik + Kristof designs greenhouse-style pavilion for Czech abbey
Dutch studio Shift Architecture Urbanism has extended the Oude Dijk monastery in Tilburg with a brick extension with a nursing home and apartments for its residents, the Sisters of Charity. More about Shift Architecture Urbanism adapts historic Dutch monastery for ageing residents
Belgian studio Atelier Vens Vanbelle has designed a white house inspired by the monasteries and farmhouses that typify the Oosterzele region. More about Atelier Vens Vanbelle creates monastic white country house
Binario Architectes has used Corten steel, concrete and wood to create a series of new additions to the Villers Abbey in Belgium, including a visitor centre and an elevated pathway (+ slideshow). More about Elevated walkway and visitor centre added to 12th-century abbey ruins by Binario Architectes
Photographer Alicja Dobrucka recently stayed at and photographed Sainte Marie de La Tourette, the 1960s Dominican convent near Lyon, France, designed by Le Corbusier. We spoke to Dobrucka about her trip to the building that "looks and feels very much like a Baroque bunker" (+ slideshow + interview). More about Alicja Dobrucka photographs Le Corbusier's "random and eccentric" La Tourette
The bell tower of this monastery on the outskirts of Valencia features a ridged surface with a cross-shaped cut-out to indicate the buildings' use to passers by (+ slideshow). More about Hernández Arquitectos' minimal white monastery features a concrete-clad bell tower
British firm Austin-Smith:Lord used textured brick for the internal and external surfaces of this monastery in Liverpool to give it an austere but coherent aesthetic (+ slideshow). More about Carmelite Monastery by Austin-Smith:Lord designed to be "calm, ordered and uplifting"
London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. More about Worth Abbey by Heatherwick Studio
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed a monastery built into the side of a hill at the site of Le Corbusier's chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut in Ronchamp. More about Ronchamp Tomorrow by Renzo Piano
German architects Astoc have completed a monastery extension in Duisburg with walls that fold around the entrance like origami sculptures. More about Hamborn Abbey Extension by Astoc