Sacralized Architecture
Architecture designed with spiritual, cultural, or healing purposes that integrate sacred principles into built form.
Dom Arquitectura Sets a Stone-Pier House at the Top of a Costa Brava Slope to Give the Garden to the Pool
In Montràs on the Costa Brava, a 735 m² single-level home uses rubble stone piers, oak and deep porches to make outdoor living the daily default.
S-AR Stacks Three Apartments Inside an Open Concrete Grid Under a Palapa in Puerto Escondido
In Puerto Escondido, S-AR builds a 12 by 15 metre concrete frame where terraces replace rooms and a thatched palapa crowns three open apartments.
Studio Saxe Tucks a Guanacaste House into a Ravine Slope and Lets the Landscape Reveal It in Fragments
In Cabo Velas, Costa Rica, Casa Akíga pairs a stone base with a floating timber roof, staging the house as a slow descent toward the ravine and sea.
CAZA Gathers Circular Rooms into One Porous Church on a Wooded University Campus in Biñan
In Biñan, Philippines, Santuario de La Salle clusters circular chapels behind a ribbed colonnade and fin skin, easing campus bustle into worship.
studio apaaar Builds a Raw Concrete Museum of Humanity Around a Split Tower in Tulapur, India
In Tulapur near Pune, a 181 m² concrete pavilion borrows from cremation-ground ritual to stage light, water and introspection.
Cerron Arquitectos Lines the CASACOR Peru 2026 Entrance with Bamboo Canopies Shaped Like Flower Petals
In Santiago de Surco, a 120 m² sequence of lashed bamboo canopies turns the Jockey Club access road into a shaded threshold between city and exhibition.
LAOS Wraps a Barcelona Social Center Extension in Climbing Vines and Stacks It Around a Skylit Brick Atrium
In Barcelona's Sants district, a 1,000 m² neighbourhood hub gathers offices and meeting rooms around a planted atrium and faces a schoolyard in green.
Balzar Arquitectos Wraps an 1890 Valencia Apartment's Plaster Salons in Curved Oak and Travertine
In València's Ciutat Vella, a 200 m² flat keeps its cherubs, cornices and mosaic floors while dark oak volumes carve out new private rooms.
Sunyata: A Meditation Center That Builds Its Calm Around a Circular Void
A shortlisted Pause entry that carves a circular courtyard from a simple site-derived mass, turning Buddhist emptiness into a space you can walk through.
The Sanctum: An Earthen Urban Village for Widows and Their Families in Qandahar
A low-rise citadel of compressed mud blocks, courtyards and wind towers that turns climate response into security, learning and self-reliance.
SARVASVA Building: A Vertical Oasis in East Bombay by SPASM Design Architects
SARVASVA Building by SPASM in Mumbai is a terracotta-clad vertical home, blending greenery, nature, and climate-sensitive design into urban living.
Demystifying Devadasis: Architecture That Restores Cultural Identity in Saundatti
A rehabilitation center in Karnataka reinterprets the Natya Mandapa to weave dance, craft, and economic agency into the fabric of a temple town.
