British studio Hugh Strange Architects has transformed an agricultural barn in Somerset, England, into a family archive building by inserting a new timber structure within the dilapidated brick and stone shell. More about Hugh Strange Architects slots architectural archive inside old farmyard barn
Paris architects Lacaton & Vassal have designed a translucent structure to house an international art collection that is a mirror image of the adjoining former shipbuilding workshop (+ slideshow). More about Art gallery and archive by Lacaton & Vassal mirrors an old shipbuilding workshop
A house-shaped tower with no windows rises from the roof of an ageing warehouse to create a new archive building for the state of North Rhine Westphalia, Germany, designed by Ortner & Ortner of Germany and Austria. More about NRW State Archive, Duisburg by Ortner & Ortner
Copper walls will gradually change colour from dark grey to rich brown on the exterior of this church archive in Nuremberg, Germany, by Hamburg office GMP Architekten (+ slideshow). More about State archive of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria by GMP Architekten
Music manuscripts and recordings of the late British composer Benjamin Britten are held within a temperature-controlled concrete chamber at this archive building in Suffolk, England by architecture firm Stanton Williams (+ slideshow). More about Britten-Pears Archive by Stanton Williams
Pools of water separate offices from archives at a new building for the National Archives of France by Italian architects Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas (+ slideshow). More about New National Archives of France by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas
Following our recent feature about buildings clad in weathered steel, here's an archive in Essen, Germany, that is clad in Corten. More about Haus der Essener Geschichte by Scheidt Kasprusch
London studio Edward Cullinan Architects have completed a concrete and steel bunker to store the British Film Institute's entire film collection. More about BFI Master Film Store by Edward Cullinan
These archival buildings in Aylesbury, England, by London studio Stephen Marshall Architects are screened by a uniform line of oak beams. More about The Rothschild Foundation by Stephen Marshall Architects
Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us these pictures of an archives centre designed by Paris studio LAN Architecture, which has an exterior of stainless steel studs set into earth-coloured concrete to reflect the colour and texture of the surrounding French landscape. More about EDF Archives Centre by LAN Architecture
Designer Brittany Bell, a student at Victoria University School of Design in Wellington, New Zealand, has designed a conceptual seed archive. More about Seed Archive by Brittany Bell