Nicholas Burns nestles concrete chapel within grounds of Portuguese estate
Architect Nicholas Burns has hidden a chapel made from concrete amongst trees and granite boulders on a large private estate in northern Portugal. More
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Studio Viktor Sørless and Estudio Juiñi design museum for Mexican jungle
Studio Viktor Sørless and Estudio Juiñi have designed the Xinatli museum to tower over an area of jungle in Mexico that is being reforested after years of illegal logging. More
Plans for Barbican concert hall by Diller Scofidio & Renfro axed
Plans for the pyramidal Centre for Music by Diller Scofidio & Renfro in London have been scrapped, with a "major renewal" of the nearby Barbican estate set to take place instead. More
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Dorte Mandrup to turn former home of Nazi architect into design academy
Dorte Mandrup has announced its plans to convert the Saalecker Workshops, the former home of German architect Paul Schultze-Naumburg, into an international design academy. More
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Construction begins on MVRDV's Pyramid of Tirana renovation
Work has begun on the conversion of the 1980s brutalist Pyramid of Tirana in the Albanian capital into a youth-focused cultural hub. More
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Richard Rogers balances his final building over Provence vineyard
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Rogers has completed his final building – a gallery that cantilevers 27 metres out above the hillside at the Château La Coste vineyard in southern France. More
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Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot design Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre for Adelaide
Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Woods Bagot have revealed visuals of the Aboriginal Art and Cultures Centre in Adelaide, which will take cues from traditional indigenous shelters. More
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Jonathan Tuckey Design creates school theatre clad with red cement
Jonathan Tuckey Design has designed the David Brownlow Theatre for a school in Berkshire that was informed by Renaissance architecture and constructed using cross-laminated timber and red composite cement panels. More
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Skolnick Architecture converts historic Hamptons church into an arts centre
Tall windows and timber framing feature in this 1830s church building in New York, which has been converted into a cultural facility by Skolnick Architecture and Design Partnership. More
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Zaha Hadid Architects reveals images of four-winged cultural centre in Zhuhai
A roofscape modelled on patterns of migratory birds will shelter the four wings of the Zhuhai Jinwan Civic Art Centre that Zaha Hadid Architects is developing in southern China. More
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Carmody Groarke creates corrugated aluminium ticket pavilion as "distinctive counterpoint" to Hamburg's 1960s fruit market
UK architecture studio Carmody Groarke has built a circular ticket office and hospitality building for a theatre within Hamburg's concrete Grossmarkt wholesale market. More
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Stufish designs socially distanced Vertical Theatre for "new era of performance venues"
Architecture studio Stufish has revealed its concept for a socially-distanced vertical theatre, which was created in response to the coronavirus pandemic. More
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O-office Architects transforms abandoned factory buildings into Chinese tea museum
O-office Architects has converted several buildings on a tea plantation near Guangzhou, China, into a cultural centre featuring a rooftop garden wrapped in bamboo screens. More
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Centre Pompidou in Paris faces four-year closure for repair works
France's culture minister has revealed that the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers will be closed from 2023 to undergo major renovations. More
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Sou Fujimoto's House of Hungarian Music nearing completion in Budapest
A museum dedicated to music topped with an undulating roof that will be punctuated by trees designed by Sou Fujimoto is nearing completion in Budapest's City Park as part of the Liget Budapest Project. More
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Jonathan Tuckey Design converts London mews house into Paddington Pantheon artists' gallery
Architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has turned a mews house in Paddington, London, into an art gallery for its former residents topped by a large roof light. More
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Sweeping metal ribbon enfolds Chinese cultural centre by Christian de Portzamparc
A ribbon of steel and aluminium winds around the Suzhou Bay Cultural Center, which French architect Christian de Portzamparc has completed on the shore of Lake Tai in China. More
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Enrique Jerez and Blanca Leal transform mid-century garage into music school
Located in a former garage space at the base of a residential block, this school for music in the Spanish city of Burgos makes a feature of the building's existing concrete structure. More
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Castelgrande's bunker-like entrance captured in photos by Simone Bossi
Swiss architect Aurelio Galfetti's stark hillside entrance to the medieval Castelgrande in Bellinzona, Switzerland is the focus of this architectural photography series by Simone Bossi. More
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David Chipperfield Architects' renovation of Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie unveiled
The first images of the renovation of the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin by David Chipperfield Architects have been revealed. More
