Architecture video blogger Martin van der Linden explains the different types of torii gates found at Japanese Shinto temples, in his latest contribution to Virtual Design Festival. More about Shinto temple gates are "symbolic entrances into a new world" says Martin van der Linden
Luum Temple is a bamboo pavilion for practising yoga nestled in the jungles of Tulum, designed by local studio CO-Lab Design Office. More about CO-LAB Design Office creates bamboo yoga pavilion in Tulum
Shoraku-Ji is a Buddhist temple next to a cemetery in northeast Tokyo by Toru Kashihara Architects with a stepped concrete design that aims to subvert traditional temple architecture. More about Toru Kashihara Architects designs stepped concrete temple in Tokyo
A team of local architects has added new amenities to a temple school in rural Thailand, using affordable materials and parts of an existing building to keep project costs down. More about Buddhanimit Temple extension contains dormitory for novice monks
This simple concrete temple in a village near the Indian city of Pune is topped with a pyramidal roof and incorporates a channel that allows ceremonial holy water to flow out into its lush surroundings. More about Red concrete meditation space sits under pyramidal roof in rural India
Sufi whirling dancers and Japanese bamboo baskets were among the references for this sculptural temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini Architects. More about Bahá’í temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini features torqued wings made of steel and glass
This Buddhist retreat by Walters & Cohen Architects features a cluster of pitched-roof structures arranged around tranquil courtyards in the English countryside. More about Colonnades frame landscaped courtyards at Buddhist retreat in rural England
Satoru Hirota Architects has overhauled the site of a Buddhist shrine dating back to Japan's Edo period, adding a triangular reception hall and a priest's quarters with bare concrete walls (+ slideshow). More about Buddhist temple in Tokyo upgraded by Satoru Hirota Architects
London Festival of Architecture 2015: a scale replica of a gateway to an ancient temple in Japan has been constructed in the grounds of the Dorich House Museum in south London by architecture students from Kingston University. More about Kingston University students erect a Japanese pavilion in the garden of a museum
Each of the 304 ribs of bamboo that make up this Buddhist temple represent a victim killed when a ferry sank off the coast of South Korea (+ slideshow). More about Wise Architecture erects bamboo temple on South Korean coast for victims of a ferry disaster
A wooden latticed ceiling covers a space for storing funerary urns inside this extension to a Japanese temple by Furumori Koichi Architectural Design Studio (+ slideshow). More about Furumori Koichi adds timber latticework to a concrete Japanese temple extension
The students and tutor of an architecture workshop in Ljubljana have built a wedge-shaped wooden pavilion containing a tiny pool of water and logs acting as stepping stones. More about Water Temple Student Workshop by Kieran Donnellan and MEDS students
There are 88 ancient Buddhist temples along the 670-mile Shikoku Pilgrimage in Japan - but only one lucky priest has a new house by Tokyo studio Zai Shirakawa Architects & Associates. More about Enbutsu-do at Eifuku-ji Temple by Zai Shirakawa Architects & Associates
Following last week's announcement that writer Alain de Botton plans to build a series of temples for atheists, here are some more images of the first structure planned for the City of London. More about Temple to Perspective by Tom Greenall and Jordan Hodgson for Alain de Botton
The students and tutors of a design and build workshop in Istanbul have constructed a seaside temple from oriented strand board. More about Chapel by Breathnach Donnellan O'Brien and MEDS students
Photographer Edmund Sumner has sent us his pictures of a temple by Mumbai studio Sameep Padora & Associates. More about Shiv Temple by Sameep Padora & Associates
Japanese architects Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates have completed the priest's quarters at a Buddhist temple in the mountains of Japan. More about Kuri at Chushinji Temple by Katsuhiro Miyamoto & Associates