NL Architects has completed a huge cultural complex in Groningen, which is set to become an important landmark for the Dutch city. More about NL Architects unveils Forum Groningen as a "cultural department store"
Herzog & de Meuron has unveiled its proposal for a linear museum complex in Hangzhou that will sit beside China's Grand Canal and celebrate the history of the artificial river. More about Herzog & de Meuron reveals visuals of museum complex beside China's Grand Canal
The Wuxi Taihu Show Theatre, which is wrapped in a steel structure designed to look like a bamboo forest, has opened in China. More about Steven Chilton Architects completes "bamboo forest" theatre in Wuxi
JKMM Architects has designed an extension to Finland's national museum in Helsinki topped with a white, disc-shaped concrete roof. More about JKMM Architects designs disc-shaped extension to National Museum of Finland
Following protests about working conditions at well-known museums – like the Marciano Art Foundation and MoMA – Mimi Zeiger says it's time to address architecture's relationship to unfair labour practices. More about "We must recognise the workers who make museum-going a smooth architectural experience"
Woodford Sheppard Architecture has completed a minimal wooden church in a remote town in Labrador, Canada. More about Our Lady of the Snows church combines Moravian and Innu influences
Atelier Masomi has designed a cluster of five raw-earth buildings that will become the Niamey Cultural Center in the capital of Niger. More about Atelier Masomi designs raw-earth-brick cultural centre in Niger
SpaceContinuum Design Studio and Shape Architecture Practice and Research have designed a pavilion in the emirate of Sharjah to house Random International's Rain Room installation. More about Sharjah Arts Foundation creates permanent home for the Rain Room in UAE
Continuing our high-tech architecture series, we look at how the Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Arts by Norman Foster marked the style's transition from industrial to cultural buildings. More about Norman Foster's Sainsbury Centre was the first high-tech art gallery in the UK
Dorte Mandrup has released visuals of The Whale, a viewpoint for whale watching that will resemble a giant rock outcrop within the Arctic Circle on the northern coast of Norway. More about Dorte Mandrup's Arctic whale watching facility will "grow out of the landscape"
Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur Stedenbouw have designed an extension to the design museum in Ghent, Belgium, which will form a link between its existing galleries. More about Carmody Groarke to create extension to Design Museum Gent
The Church of the Penitent Thief in Bologna, Italy, is housed in a gabled white volume cleaved in two by a glazed crack and was built with the help of inmates of La Dozza prison. More about Prison inmates help build cracked-open Church of the Penitent Thief in Italy
The walls of this Mexico City pavilion by local architect Gerardo Broissin are made from concrete panels pieced together like a jigsaw puzzle. More about Bubbles protrude from concrete puzzle pavilion at Design Week Mexico
Monolithic blocks of stone mimic man-made quarry landscapes for Grupo Arca's showroom and cultural centre in Guadalajara, Mexico, designed by Esrawe Studio. More about Esrawe Studio carves quarry-like landscape for Guadalajara stone showroom
Architecture firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Gensler have completed the renovation and expansion of New York's Museum of Modern Art, featuring a new lobby, bookstore, cafe and several gallery spaces. More about MoMA reopens following major renovation by Diller Scofidio + Renfro
This bathhouse for conservative Jewish women in Mexico City features a stark composition of grainy white marble by local architecture firm Arqhe Studio. More about Arqhe Studio designs white marble mikveh for Mexico City's Orthodox Jewish community
Architecture studio Hundredhands inserted a funnel-shaped window between the floors of the concrete and brick Bangalore International Centre in India.
More about Domed oculus connects floors of concrete-framed cultural centre in India
Steven Holl Architects has completed a concrete public library in New York's Long Island City featuring large irregular windows that offer views of the waterfront and Manhattan. More about Steven Holl punctures concrete New York library with "sculpted cuts"
David Adjaye has revealed visuals of The Abrahamic Family House, an interfaith complex in Abu Dhabi that will contain a church, mosque and synagogue. More about David Adjaye designs trio of multifaith temples in Abu Dhabi
Steven Holl Architects has nestled "much-needed" performance spaces for the Kennedy Center in Washington DC under a grassy slope topped by three white concrete pavilions. More about Steven Holl tops subterranean extension to Kennedy Center with trio of geometric pavilions