Crematorium Siesegem, Sayama Forest Chapel, Trekroner Church, St Henry’s Ecumenical Art Chapel, Mountain Chapel Vordere Niedere

Architecture | An austere material palette of concrete and grey marble helped Kaan Architecten create a series of calming and contemplative spaces inside this crematorium in Belgium.

Architecture | Rørbæk and Møller Architects have designed Trekroner Church with a modern expression of organic forms and a balanced interaction between interior and exterior.

Architecture | The Sayama Forest Chapel in Saitama, Japan by Japanese architect Hiroshi Nakamura has a “V” shape timber structure inspired in traditional Japanese structures called “Gassho-zukuri”.

Architecture | An arched framework of curving pine ribs gives this chapel in Finland by Sanaksenaho Architects a shape more akin to a boat than a building.

Architecture | The chapel designed by Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten occupies a grassy, gently sloping hilltop between two walking trails, at the threshold separating cultivated land from the untouched Alpine mountainscape.