A museum of contemporary art designed by Zaha Hadid for Michigan State University opened to the public this weekend (+ slideshow). More »
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
by Zaha Hadid Architects
Cultural
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum
Tåkern Visitor Centre
by Wingårdhs
This thatched visitor centre by architects Wingårdhs sits beside the shallow waters of Sweden's Lake Tåkern, the annual nesting habitat for over a hundred species of bird (+ slideshow). More »
Wine Museum in Lavaux by
Mauro Turin Architectes
Swiss studio Mauro Turin Architectes wants to celebrate the history of the Lavaux wine-making region in Switzerland by cantilevering a museum from the side of a mountain (+ slideshow). More »
Miami Chapel
by FREE
Mexican firm Fernando Romero EnterprisE (FREE) has won a competition to design a chapel in Miami with plans modelled on the pleated fabric gown of religious figure the Lady of Guadalupe. More »
Buddhist Meditation Centre Metta Vihara
by Bureau SLA
Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow). More »
Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture
by Shigeru Ban
While OMA is busy finalising designs for a new home for the Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture in Moscow, the arts organisation has temporarily moved into a pavilion with cardboard columns by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban (+ slideshow). More »
Dadong Art Centre by MAYU Architects
and de Architekten Cie
MAYU Architects and de Architekten Cie designed eleven huge funnels to protect visitors from extreme weather conditions in the outdoor spaces of this cultural centre in Taiwan (+ slideshow). More »
Snøhetta wins competition to design
Busan Opera House
"If China doesn't go green it's the end of
the world" - Li Xiaodong on Liyuan Library
World Architecture Festival 2012: in this movie we filmed at the World Architecture Festival, Chinese architect Li Xiaodong tells Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs how "sustainability is a must" for new buildings in China, because if the country doesn't get it right it's "the end of the world". More »
El Greco Museum restoration and extension
by Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos
Renaissance artist El Greco lived and worked in the Spanish city of Toledo and Pardo + Tapia Arquitectos has refurbished and added a glazed entrance pavilion to the small museum that houses some of his most important paintings (+ slideshow). More »
Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre
by Heneghan Peng Architects
The stone mullions surrounding this visitor centre by Irish firm Heneghan Peng Architects imitate the towering basalt columns of the volcanically formed Giant's Causeway (+ slideshow). More »
First photographs of Eli and Edythe Broad
Art Museum by Zaha Hadid unveiled
News: Michigan State University has unveiled the first photographs of its Zaha Hadid-designed museum of contemporary art, which opens to the public next month. More »
Katowice Scientific Information Centre
and Academic Library by HS99
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland
by Farshid Moussavi
This six-sided building covered in mirrors is the new home for the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland in Ohio by London-based architect Farshid Moussavi (+ slideshow). More »
Book Mountain
by MVRDV
