A former bank in the historic centre of Montreal has been transformed into an office for a tech start-up and a cafe for freelance workers by local architect Henri Cleinge. More about Henri Cleinge adapts grand Montreal bank for Crew Offices and Cafe
Snøhetta has won a competition to design the headquarters of Banque Libano Francaise in Beirut, the firm's first project in Lebanon. More about Snøhetta designs Beirut bank featuring chequerboard walls and rooftop gardens
Winy Maas of MVRDV explains how his design for a "big building composed of mini units" created a headquarters for Norway's DNB Bank interspersed with indoor and outdoor meeting places, in the penultimate movie from our exclusive series (+ movie). More about MVRDV used pixellated forms to make DNB Bank "human and approachable" says Winy Maas
Trees sprout out of the rainbow-coloured cubes that make up the facade of this bank in northern Tokyo – the fourth building that architect Emmanuelle Moureaux has designed for Sugamo Shinkin (+ slideshow). More about Coloured boxes and plants cover the latest Sugamo Shinkin Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux
This pale brick building for Dutch financial services company Rabobank has been purposefully designed by architecture studio Mecanoo to "not look like a bank" (+ slideshow). More about Mecanoo integrates public workspaces within banking centre for Rabobank
Italian bank ChiantiBanca has opened a string of new branches in Tuscany that are designed to look more like traditional local eateries than financial institutions. More about Restaurant Experience Banking by Crea International and DINN!
Designer Emmanuelle Moureaux has brought her trademark colour spectrum to a fourth bank branch in Japan by surrounding the facade with brightly coloured sticks (+ slideshow). More about Sugamo Shinkin Bank, Ekoda by Emmanuelle Moureaux
A chequerboard of solid and void cloaks the tapered glass walls of this bank in Innsbruck by Austrian architect Rainer Köberl (photographs by Lukas Schaller + slideshow). More about BTV Branch Innsbruck by Rainer Köberl
The subtly different proportions of two concrete gables fronting a bank building in northern Germany create the illusion that one side is fatter than the other. More about Volksbank Gifhorn by Stephan Braunfels Architekten
Amsterdam studio Sander Architecten designed cardboard meeting rooms inside a bank in the Netherlands. More about Rabobank Headquarters by Sander Architecten
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Design cooperative NAU and DGJ have completed this interior for Swiss bank Raiffeisen in Zurich, featuring curving walls perforated to create pictures of faces. More about Open Lounge by NAU + DGJ
Horizontal layers of colour protrude out from the facade of this bank branch in Tokyo by Tokyo-based French architect Emmanuelle Moureaux. More about Sugamo Shinkin Bank by Emmanuelle Moureaux
Foster + Partners have completed two modular headquarters for Moroccan bank BMCE in Rabat and Casablanca, Morocco. More about BMCE headquarters by Foster + Partners
Lebanon architects Atelier Hapsitus's proposed design for the new headquarters of the BLC bank in Beirut would cantilever over the existing building. More about BLC Headquarters by Atelier Hapsitus
As part of a waterfront development for Oslo called Bjørvika Barcode, Norwegian architects A-Lab have designed an office and residential building with a covered garden punched through the middle. More about DnB NOR Headquarters by A-Lab
Spanish architects Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes have completed the offices of a bank that was founded by architects for architects in Pamplona, Spain. More about Oficina Caja de Arquitectos by Carlos Pereda Iglesias and Óscar Pérez Silanes
Work starts next spring on the European Central Bank in Frankfurt, Germany, designed by Austrian architects Coop Himmelb(l)au. More about European Central Bank by Coop Himmelb(l)au
Istanbul practice Teget Architectural Office have completed an extension to a banking centre in Istanbul, Turkey. More about YapiKredi Bank Academy by Teget Architectural Office
Work has started on a new headquarters building for a bank in Oslo, Norway, designed by Dutch architects MVRDV. More about DnB NOR headquarters by MVRDV