An otherwordly character explores the Chapel of Sound, a rock-like concert hall designed by Chinese studio Open Architecture, in this science-fiction-informed video by Xia Zhi. More about Chapel of Sound in China is given a "science-fiction vibe" in new video
Up next in our deconstructivism series we take a look at the iconic Walt Disney Concert Hall designed by Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry. More about Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall is "a living room" for Los Angeles
Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled plans for a national concert hall in Prague that features protruding angular colonnades, which double as large balconies. More about BIG wraps Vltava Philharmonic Hall in ascending colonnades
Architecture studio Snøhetta has unveiled its design for an expansion to St Louis Orchestra's Powell Hall that will feature scalloped walls, a grainy brick facade and glazed arches. More about Snøhetta to add entrance shaped like "canted shells" to St Louis' Powell Hall
In this week's comments update, readers can't believe that plans to extend The Colburn School in Downtown Los Angeles were designed by architect Frank Gehry and are discussing other top stories. More about Commenter calls The Colburn School extension "a love child of Gehry and Koolhaas"
The Colburn School has announced plans for a 100,000-square-foot campus expansion in Downtown Los Angeles designed by architect Frank Gehry. More about Frank Gehry releases design for Colburn Center in Los Angeles
Chinese studio Open Architecture has completed The Chapel of Sound, a monolithic open-air concert hall in a valley next to the ruins of the Great Wall of China outside Beijing. More about Open Architecture unveils rock-like concert hall in a valley outside Beijing
MVRDV will "break open" the Heuvel shopping centre in Eindhoven to connect it with the city, in plans that will also add a music venue topped with a climbable glass mountain. More about MVRDV to transform Eindhoven's Heuvel shopping centre with glass "Music Mountain"
Canadian firm Diamond Schmitt Architects clad this Texas performing arts venue in reflective metal panels with horizontal stripes that recall rocky canyons. More about Diamond Schmitt covers Buddy Holly Hall in gleaming facade
Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. More about Steel and glass exoskeleton transforms abandoned warehouse into concert venue
An undulating, multi-pitched roof covers the timber-framed Congress and Exhibition Centre in Agordo, Italy, designed by architects Emanuele Bressan and Andrea Botter. More about Timber trusses support undulating roof of Italian convention centre
Architect Andrew Bromberg at Aedas has revealed the design for an extension to the home of Edmonton Symphony Orchestra in Canada, featuring rounded glass walls, a slatted stone roof and an elevated garden. More about Slatted stone encloses glass extension for Edmonton Symphony Orchestra by Andrew Bromberg
US firm William Rawn Associates has created a series of buildings for a performing arts campus in western Massachusetts, where retractable glass walls allow music to spill outdoors. More about William Rawn designs cedar-clad pavilions for Tanglewood campus in the Berkshires
A zinc-clad concert hall by Steven Holl Architects and Architecture Acts will cantilever over the 1960s modernist House of Culture in Ostrava, Czech Republic. More about Steven Holl designs zinc-clad concert hall for Czech Republic
Studio Seilern Architects has converted a half-built conference centre in Andermatt, Switzerland, into a concert hall by lifting up its roof to double the building's size. More about Studio Seilern Architects raises the roof to create Andermatt Concert Hall in the Swiss Alps
The decision to build the London Centre for Music less than 300 metres away from an existing concert hall is the latest unnecessary example of global high-culture one-upmanship, says Phineas Harper. More about "The arms race for cultural dominion has reached new levels of absurdity"
Open Architecture is building a concert hall in a valley north of Beijing, designed to look "as if a strange and prehistoric boulder had fallen there long ago". More about Open Architecture designs Chapel of Sound concert hall to look like hollowed-out boulder
Designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro the London Centre for Music at the Barbican will be "a concert hall for the 21st century", within a twisted pyramid-shaped tower. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro unveils twisted pyramidal tower for Barbican concert hall
Zaha Hadid Architects has won a competition to design the Sverdlovsk Philharmonic Concert Hall in Yekaterinburg, Russia. More about Zaha Hadid Architects to design concert hall for Ural Philharmonic Orchestra
This concert hall in Mérida, Mexico, comprises a building faced in metal ribs that encloses a central plaza for public performances. More about Steel ribbing flanks courtyard at Palace for Mexican Music