Architects Héctor Fernández Elorza and Manuel Fernández Ramírez have transformed a dilapidated chapel in Spain into a cultural centre by inserting a shell made of board-marked concrete. More about Board-marked concrete and pleated wood line cultural centre in 17th-century chapel
Recessed windows set into the facades of this youth centre in the English town of Tadley feature faceted timber-lined frames that contrast the building's dark fibre-cement cladding. More about Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt completes angular youth centre in Hampshire
A colonnade of petal-shaped arches creates an illuminated walkway around the perimeter of this Muslim cultural centre designed by Chinese architect He Jingtang. More about Arched walkway wraps Muslim centre near Beijing by He Jingtang
Dutch studio BETA and Elisabeth Boersma of planB have transformed an old school in Amsterdam into a hub for entrepreneurs featuring full-height windows that can be retracted to open the entire facade. More about Retractable garage-style doors open Amsterdam entrepreneur hub to the elements
This timber-clad community centre by Bernardo Bader Architects is set at the heart of a village in rural Austria, and designed to reference the surrounding gabled farmhouses. More about Bernardo Bader Architekten models larch-clad community centre on Austrian farmhouses
The thin columns and wood cladding that front this educational facility in a Pittsburgh park are designed to help the building fit in with its woodland setting (+ slideshow). More about Bohlin Cywinski Jackson's nature centre in Pittsburgh "blends with the surrounding woods"
Mazes, slides, nets, fireman's poles and climbing walls all feature inside this Copenhagen community centre, designed by architecture studios MVRDV and Adept to encourage adults to be more active (+ slideshow). More about MVRDV and Adept team up on community centre that invites grownups to play
US firms Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design have completed a new barn in Utah for a family that has been farming the same land since the 1800s (+ slideshow). More about Lloyd Architects and Louise Hill Design build community-oriented farmhouse in Utah
Pritzker Prize-winning Australian architect Glenn Murcutt has revealed new images of his first mosque in Melbourne, showing a roof covered in rows of dramatic lantern-like skylights (+ slideshow). More about Glenn Murcutt unveils first images of Australian Islamic Centre in Melbourne
Architect Yasutaka Yoshimura has completed a kindergarten on the site of a disused warehouse in Japan, featuring a tent-like structure wrapped in a translucent membrane that recalls the shape of the original building. (+ slideshow). More about Yasutaka Yoshimura wraps warehouse in tent fabric to create Fukumasu Base kindergarten
Architecture students from the University of Innsbruck have designed and built an angular timber and glass structure to provide a place for youngsters in the Austrian city to develop creative skills (+ slideshow). More about Bilding is a faceted wooden community centre built by students in an Austrian park
Large windows provide glimpses of a pair of swimming pools and a maroon sports court within this corrugated metal community centre by IDOM, located in Spain's Basque Country (+ slideshow). More about Recessed windows frame pools and courts in Salburúa Civic Center by IDOM
A kitchen concealed behind a pivoting wooden wall is one of several interventions made to transform an old agricultural warehouse in Almenar de Soria, Spain, into a community events space (+ slideshow). More about Valentín Sanz converts former warehouse into community centre with a foldaway kitchen
Architects office ARX Portugal has completed a beachside civic centre on Portugal's Costa Nova, featuring an exhibition hall facing out to sea and a series of sloping rooftop terraces (+ slideshow). More about Seaside cultural centre by ARX Portugal boasts an intricate wooden framework
Five years after the devastating Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami struck Japan, Klein Dytham Architecture has unveiled a community hall for recovering city Sōma, designed to look like a huge straw hat (+ slideshow). More about Klein Dytham builds latticed community hall for Toyo Ito's post-earthquake recovery programme
Architecture studio AOC gave this community centre in south London a textured, herringbone-patterned facade to reference a mock-Tudor pub across the street (+ slideshow). More about The Green community centre by AOC features herringbone-patterned brickwork
Grass blankets the roof of this low-energy community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture, which is set in the centre of a new development to the south-east of Paris (+ slideshow). More about Passivhaus community centre by Guillaume Ramillien Architecture is clad in grass and timber
Vietnamese studio Vo Trong Nghia Architects has built a community centre of eight pavilions, each with intricate bamboo structures and thatched rooftops (+ slideshow). More about Vo Trong Nghia creates bamboo and thatch domes for Diamond Island Community Centre
Brightly coloured stripes cover one face of this bulky concrete community complex in Lille, which was designed by architect Julien De Smedt to host facilities for the "three ages of mankind" (+ slideshow). More about Julien De Smedt's angular concrete youth centre in Lille features a colourful striped wall
The roof of this extension to a Copenhagen cultural centre is shaped like an elongated S, and it appears to ramp up over the roof of one of the buildings it adjoins (+ slideshow). More about S-shaped extension links two sides of Copenhagen's Mariehøj Kulturcenter