The David Bowie Centre, designed by local architecture studio IDK, opens at London's V&A East Storehouse this weekend with an archive of over 90,000 Bowie-related items and a public exhibition showcasing iconic, era-defining costumes. More about David Bowie's "cut-up lyrics" inform dedicated space at V&A East Storehouse
New York design studio Standard Issue has collaborated with American furniture company MillerKnoll to showcase over 300 pieces of furniture at an archive located at the brand's Michigan headquarters. More about MillerKnoll balances "the iconic and the unexpected" at archive in Michigan
Designs from the early years of mobile phone technology will be brought to the fore in the Nokia Design Archive, an online portal being launched by Finland's Aalto University. More about Aalto University immortalises early mobile tech with Nokia Design Archive
Chicago architecture studio Jahn has used massive steel trusses and a glass envelope for a military archive building with a structure informed by amphibious landing vehicles. More about Jahn creates "rough and tough" military archive in Wisconsin
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a monolithic archival facility in Quebec by B+H Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. More about Dezeen Debate features "intriguing" archival facility in Quebec
Toronto-based studio B+H Architects has created an archival storage facility in Gatineau, Quebec, with a massive double-layer concrete envelope and automated retrieval systems. More about B+H Architects creates archival facility with double-concrete skin in Quebec
Japanese studio Nendo has created an archive to house its products and furniture from precast concrete box culverts in central Japan. More about Nendo stacks concrete tunnels to create archive and guesthouse in Miyota
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has built the Centre de Conservation du Louvre in Liévin, northern France, to securely store 250,000 works of art from the museum's collection. More about Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners creates "fortress-like" archive for the Louvre
The Imperial War Museum has a new archive in Cambridgeshire, England, called the IWM Paper Store, which is the most airtight building in the world. More about Architype builds eco-friendly archive for Imperial War Museum's collection
Leopold Banchini Architects gave the House for Architectural Heritage in Muharraq, Bahrain, retractable glass walls that open it up to its surroundings. More about Concrete exhibition space showcases Bahrain's architectural past and present
An archive of the UK's nuclear legacy is housed inside this angular structure by Reiach and Hall Architects, which has been named Scotland's best new building by the RIAS. More about Reiach and Hall's archive of British civil nuclear industry named Scotland's best building
The Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin is next in our Bauhaus 100 series, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the influential school. Featuring a distinctive sawtooth roof, the gallery and archive was envisioned by Walter Gropius but not completed until after his death. More about Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv designed by Walter Gropius for "a vivid encounter with the Bauhaus"
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates threw paper pulp at expanded-metal panels to produce light-filtering screens evoking artist Antoni Clavé's paintings, at this archive in Paris dedicated to his work. More about Kengo Kuma divides Archives Antoni Clavé with mesh screens dappled with paper pulp
Office Winhov and Gottlieb Paludan Architects designed a decorative relief pattern that looks like bookshelves for the facade of this archive building in Delft, the Netherlands. More about City Archive Delft features brick-relief facade that evokes bookshelves
The Allies and Morrison-designed Qatar National Archive in Doha, Qatar, is informed by the layout and materiality of the Middle Eastern country's vernacular architecture. More about Allies and Morrison's Qatar National Archive references traditional coastal watchtowers
This pair of enormous mirrored-steel boxes connected by a glazed bridge were designed by Antonini + Darmon and RMDM, to complement and extend an aluminium-clad archive facility outside Paris. More about Stainless-steel extension to CTLES archive reflects its rural surroundings
Slanted panels of precast concrete are positioned to catch the dawn and dusk sunlight that falls on the facades of this archival facility near the Australian capital, Canberra. More about May + Russell's Australian archive building features three-dimensional concrete facades
Architecture studio Jonathan Tuckey Design has created a new archival space for London's Southbank Centre featuring a mid-century shelving system that reflects the building's heritage. More about New Southbank Centre archive by Jonathan Tuckey Design utilises a 1950s shelving system
Berlin architect Volker Staab has won a competition to extend the Bauhaus archive and museum in the German capital, designed by founder Walter Gropius in the 1960s. More about Staab Architekten chosen to extend Berlin's Bauhaus-Archiv with "almost frail" design
This limestone-faced museum in the German city of Kassel by Kada Wittfeld Architektur houses the archives of famous literary duo the Brothers Grimm (+ slideshow). More about Museum dedicated to the fairytales of the Brothers Grimm has a stepped roof overlooking Kassel