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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
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
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
Dezeen Wire: writer Alain de Botton has announced plans to build a series of temples for atheists in the UK. The first will be a 46 metre-tall black tower designed by architects Tom Greenall and Jordan Hodgson, constructed in London to represent the idea of perspective. More
Portuguese architects Cerejeira Fontes inserted this slatted timber chapel inside a school for friars in Braga, Portugal (photos: Nelson Garrido). More
London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. More
Construction is about to commence in Algiers on the third largest mosque in the world, which will only be smaller than the pilgrimage sites of Mecca and Medina. More
A Jewish purification ritual takes place in the pools of this Mexico City bathhouse. More
The students and tutors of a design and build workshop in Istanbul have constructed a seaside temple from oriented strand board. More
German architects Astoc have completed a monastery extension in 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
Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to design a mosque, Islamic centre and museum in Tirana, Albania. 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
Russian architects Arch-group and French studio Sade Sarl last week won an international competition to design a Russian Orthodox church and cultural centre beside the Eiffel Tower in Paris. More
This boulder-shaped building in Acapulco, Mexico, is a mausoleum by Mexcian studio Bunker Arquitectura. More
This tomb for a family on the mountainside in Arganil, Portugal, is by Portuguese architect Pedro Dias. More