Paris studio Marchi Architectes has extended a small museum in the French village of Biévres and added a community centre with a series of pitched roofs (+ slideshow). More about Marchi Architectes completes a community centre in the heart of an old French village
To help this community centre blend into its residential setting in Takamatsu, Japan, designer Yasunari Tsukada divided the building up into two house-shaped blocks (+ slideshow). More about Sanjo Hokusei Community Centre designed by Yasunari Tsukada to look like a pair of houses
Vector Architects designed a huge grassy roof canopy and plant-covered walls for this community centre in southwest China, helping it to blend in with its mountain landscape (+ slideshow). More about Vector Architects disguises mountainside community centre beneath sprawling grass roof
A thatched roof shaped like a giant parasol shelters this bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia, which is built over a pond in a south Vietnam village (+ slideshow). More about Thatched "umbrella-like" roof tops bamboo community centre by Vo Trong Nghia
The oxidised-steel walls and prefabricated construction of this community library and sports centre near Newcastle, England, are influenced by the region's ship-building heritage (+ slideshow). More about FaulknerBrowns Architects adds weathering steel facade to new Hebburn Central community centre
Canadian cedar shingles and slats cover the gables of this community centre and scout hut, which sit behind a concrete wall on the edge of Copenhagen's Søndermarken park (+ slideshow). More about Shingled community centres by Sophus Søbye Arkitekter face into Copenhagen parkland
Trailing plants cascade over the edge of this elevated walkway, which was designed by Garis Architects to shelter a community events space in western Malaysia (+ slideshow). More about Green canopy by Garis Architects spans the grounds of community centre in Malaysia
Dutch architecture studio GAAGA has completed a three-winged wooden tea house in Leiden, the Netherlands, featuring large windows on all sides to allow panoramic views of the surrounding park (+ slideshow). More about GAAGA uses prefabricated wooden walls to build "three-legged" tea house in a Dutch park
Vietnamese studio H&P Architects has used leftover construction materials to build a multicoloured community building in the grounds of a stadium in Vietnam's Ha Tinh province (+ slideshow). More about H&P Architects sources recycled materials to build Re-ainbow community shelter in Vietnam
Panels of oxidised steel provide cladding and a colonnade for this Brisbane community centre by local architecture firm Kirk, referencing the rusty car wrecks once dumped on its site (+ slideshow). More about Pre-rusted metal panels clad Kirk's Fitzgibbon Community Centre in Brisbane
This Vietnam community centre by architecture studio 1+2>3 features bamboo roofs thatched with coconut leaves, which pitch inwards to direct rainwater towards a series of planted courtyards (+ slideshow). More about Cam Thanh Community House in Vietnam features thatched roofing and secluded courtyards
Children's play areas located beneath the zigzag roof of this community centre by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma have been landscaped to form a hilly indoor terrain that can be clambered over or used as slides (+ slideshow). More about Community centre by Kengo Kuma features playrooms with undulating floorboards
Danish studio Henning Larsen Architects has unveiled plans for a new mosque and Islamic community centre in Denmark's capital city. More about Henning Larsen reveals designs for new mosque in Copenhagen
These two glass and steel pavilions erected by architecture collective De Kort Van Schaik Van Noten in the gardens of a disused presbytery form a community hall and youth club for a Belgian village (+ slideshow). More about Glazed pavilions form a community centre in the grounds of an old Flemish manse
A corrugated steel roof supported by bamboo columns provides shelter for three buildings, a bicycle workshop and a playground at this community centre in Bangladesh (+ slideshow). More about Bamboo-framed canopy shades Bangladesh community centre by Schilder Scholte
French studio CUT Architectures has revamped a 1960s community centre in a Paris suburb, adding perforated golden cladding that references the original yellow-painted facades (+ slideshow). More about CUT Architectures adds golden walls to 1960s community centre
Designed to offer a "landmark" in an otherwise mundane part of Paris, this sport and culture centre by Bruther features a multi-layered facade that varies in transparency to suit the various activities it contains (+ slideshow). More about Bruther slots curving community centre into crowded Paris neighbourhood
The consecutive pitched roofs of this church community centre in Germany were designed by Netzwerkarchitekten to make the building resemble a row of terraced houses. More about Netzwerkarchitekten completes community centre with a zigzagging golden roof
World Architecture Festival 2014: in this exclusive video interview Vietnamese architect Toan Nghiem discusses the use of bright colours in The Chapel, the community centre that was crowned World Building of the Year 2014 earlier this month (+ movie). More about The Chapel by a21studio is like "a big colourful lantern"
This complex of interlocking white buildings was designed by Elsa Urquijo Arquitectos to house the different activities of Spanish social charity Padre Rubinos (+ slideshow). More about Elsa Urquijo's campus for a Spanish charity is made up of "serene" white buildings