Seven harmonious temples from Dezeen's Pinterest
Over the recent holiday season, many people visited temples to reflect on the passing year. We've rounded up seven projects from our popular temple board on Pinterest. More
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BIG designs Mindfulness City in Bhutan connected by "inhabitable bridges"
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled its masterplan for a 1,000-square-kilometre development in Bhutan that will include an international airport and a hydroelectric dam incorporating a temple. More
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Burning Man 2023 temple designed to show "deepest potential of architecture"
The design team for the temple at this year's annual Burning Man festival in Nevada has revealed renderings of the project as construction gets underway in the desert. More
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James Gorst Architects creates timber-framed temple in rural Hampshire
Timber-framed pavilions connected by cloistered walkways define this non-denominational temple complex by British studio James Gorst Architects in rural Hampshire, UK. More
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Atelier Deshaus completes Buddhist temple alongside Great Wall of China
Chinese architecture studio Atelier Deshaus has completed the Upper-Cloister Buddhist temple and meditation complex, in the Jinshan Mountains near Beijing. More
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Curved roof welcomes visitors to Shinagawa Branch Temple in Japan
Japanese architecture studio Abanba has completed a temple in Shinagawa, Tokyo, featuring a gently curving roof that shelters a glazed entrance and reflects daylight into a triple-height atrium. More
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Saket Sethi creates egg-shaped garden temple alongside rural Indian house
Indian architect Saket Sethi has completed the Sunoo Temple House on the outskirts of Mumbai with a rooftop garden and a private worship space that is designed to evoke a galaxy. More
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Edmund Sumner films black-granite Hindu temple in India
Architectural photographer Edmund Sumner's latest film uses drones to capture Sameep Padora & Associates' recently completed Hindu temple complex in Andhra Pradesh, India. More
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Abin Design Studio creates latticed concrete and glass temple in India
Narayantala Thakurdalan by Indian practice Abin Design Studio is a concrete Hindu temple with a glazed corner that opens onto the street in Bansberia. More
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Photographs capture OMA's Jewish temple extension taking shape in LA
These photographs by architect Alessandra Cianchetta capture the construction of the tilted and patterned walls of the extension OMA has designed for a Jewish temple in Los Angeles, California. More
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Neasden Temple is built from over 5,000 tonnes of hand-carved stone
The next Open House London documentary offers a glimpse of Neasden Temple, a place of worship in northwest London that was built using ancient Hindu texts and 26,000 pieces of stone. More
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Sameep Padora & Associates creates stepped temple in Andhra Pradesh
Sameep Padora & Associates has designed a Hindu temple complex partially surrounded by a moat for the village of Nandyal in Andhra Pradesh, India. More
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Arthur Mamou-Mani shares unseen drone footage of Burning Man project Galaxia at VDF
As part of today's VDF collaboration with Arthur Mamou-Mani, the French architect speaks about his Galaxia temple at the 2018 Burning Man festival and shares previously unseen aerial footage of it. More
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Shinto temple gates are "symbolic entrances into a new world" says Martin van der Linden
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
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CO-LAB Design Office creates bamboo yoga pavilion in Tulum
Luum Temple is a bamboo pavilion for practising yoga nestled in the jungles of Tulum, designed by local studio CO-Lab Design Office. More
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Toru Kashihara Architects designs stepped concrete temple in Tokyo
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
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Buddhanimit Temple extension contains dormitory for novice monks
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
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Red concrete meditation space sits under pyramidal roof in rural India
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
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Bahá’í temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini features torqued wings made of steel and glass
Sufi whirling dancers and Japanese bamboo baskets were among the references for this sculptural temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini Architects. More
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Colonnades frame landscaped courtyards at Buddhist retreat in rural England
This Buddhist retreat by Walters & Cohen Architects features a cluster of pitched-roof structures arranged around tranquil courtyards in the English countryside. More
