Wutopia Lab reveals "shimmering whale" Shanghai museum with arched copper shell
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has created Copper Blockhouse, a multi-functional cultural space located inside a copper arch in Shanghai, China. More
Chinese studio Wutopia Lab has created Copper Blockhouse, a multi-functional cultural space located inside a copper arch in Shanghai, China. More
Italian architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the landmark Istanbul Modern museum, which is its first project in Turkey. More
Dutch practice Kaan Architecten has extended the Museum Paleis Het Loo in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands, concealing over 5,000 square meters of visitor spaces beneath a public courtyard and fountain. More
Brooklyn studio O'Neill McVoy Architects has adapted a historic powerhouse into a museum for children in the Bronx that highlights the historical building while adding playful details. More
Chinese studio Open Architecture has revealed the visuals for Yichang Grand Theatre in China, which will have an amorphous form intended to evoke flowing water. More
A concrete gateway marks the entrance to the Threshold and Treasure art gallery, which architecture studio AMAA has housed in a former print house in Arzignano, Italy. More
Stirling Prize-winning studio Niall McLaughlin Architects has completed a seven-storey museum in Limerick, Ireland, with vaulted ceilings and walls designed to "reflect the forces found in rugby". More
A series of cylindrical skylights and brick turrets feature in this Bangladesh mausoleum, which architecture studio Sthapotik designed as a reference to traditional Islamic buildings. More
London studio SIRS Architects has converted a 19th-century brewery into a public gallery for artist duo Gilbert & George in London. More
The penultimate case study in our Timber Revolution series is a 20-storey mass-timber building just below the Arctic Circle – the Sara Kulturhus Centre by Swedish studio White Arkitekter. More
British designer Thomas Heatherwick's studio is designing the Jeddah Central Museum in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, which will be located in a former desalination plant by the Red Sea. More
UK studio Citizens Design Bureau has given a colourful retrofit to Jacksons Lane, an arts and circus centre in an old church in London, with the aim of decluttering and simplifying its interior. More
Japanese architect Shigeru Ban explains how his egg-shaped music auditorium acts as a western gateway to Paris in the last instalment of Dezeen's Concrete Icons series produced in collaboration with Holcim. More
Chinese studio MAD has revealed visuals of its design for the Rotterdam Center for Dance in the Netherlands, as well as photos of the spiral staircase being constructed for its museum next door. More
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Clouds AO's wrapped cultural hub in Japan and Reinier de Graaf's call for architects to stop using vacuous buzzwords. More
A spiralling facade of stainless steel panels wraps this cultural centre in Fukuoka, Japan, which has been designed by Clouds AO in collaboration with NKS2 Architects and Takumi Nakahara Architects. More
Czech studio Atak Architekti has added a metal-clad extension to a former rectory building to create a library and multifunctional community spaces for the city of Liberec in the Czech Republic. More
Chinese architecture studio Neri&Hu has added an extension to the Qujiang Museum of Fine Arts in Xi'an, China, that was designed to "serve as a source of illumination for the surrounding urban fabric". More
The Abrahamic Family House, an interfaith complex designed by architect David Adjaye that contains a church, a synagogue and a mosque, has opened in Abu Dhabi. More
A rammed-earth extension is set to be added to the neoclassical National Archaeological Museum in Athens as part of a refurbishment by David Chipperfield Architects' studio in Berlin. More