Cultural buildings
Workshop Architects designs Filux Lab art centre for Mérida’s festival of lights
wHY Architecture reveals design for opera house in Russia
Tadao Ando reveals design for He Art Museum in China
Steel and glass exoskeleton transforms abandoned warehouse into concert venue
Herzog & de Meuron reveals visuals of museum complex beside China’s Grand Canal
Steven Chilton Architects completes “bamboo forest” theatre in Wuxi
Our Lady of the Snows church combines Moravian and Innu influences
Atelier Masomi designs raw-earth-brick cultural centre in Niger
Dorte Mandrup’s Arctic whale watching facility will “grow out of the landscape”
Carmody Groarke to create extension to Design Museum Gent
Esrawe Studio carves quarry-like landscape for Guadalajara stone showroom
MoMA reopens following major renovation by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
Pale green ceramic tiles cover exhibition centre in China
Photos reveal Shigeru Ban’s Tainan Art Museum building in Taiwan
Bridge links historic German museum to travertine-clad extension
NL Architects unveils Forum Groningen as a “cultural department store”
JKMM Architects designs disc-shaped extension to National Museum of Finland
“We must recognise the workers who make museum-going a smooth architectural experience”
Sharjah Arts Foundation creates permanent home for the Rain Room in UAE
Norman Foster’s Sainsbury Centre was the first high-tech art gallery in the UK
Prison inmates help build cracked-open Church of the Penitent Thief in Italy
Bubbles protrude from concrete puzzle pavilion at Design Week Mexico
Arqhe Studio designs white marble mikveh for Mexico City’s Orthodox Jewish community
