Snøhetta has released visuals of a Museum Quarter in the mountains of Bolzano, which will have a projecting stepped roof that doubles as a viewpoint. More about Snøhetta designs Italian mountaintop museum for Ötzi the Iceman
SPPARC has unveiled its designs for a museum surrounding the Golden Hinde – a full-size replica of the of Francis Drake's Golden Hind galleon. More about SPPARC's Golden Hinde visitor centre will cantilever over the River Thames
Three red brickwork volumes form this cultural centre in New York, which Brooklyn-based studio nArchitects designed to commemorate the state's fight for social equality. More about Angular brick volumes form nArchitects' Equal Rights Heritage Center in New York
Espen Surnevik's replacement for a 19th-century church lost to a fire in the Norwegian village of Våler has pyramidal timber roofs that funnel daylight into its worship spaces. More about Våler Kirke church has angular wooden roofs designed to evoke its historic predecessor
Iranian-born British architect Farshid Moussavi has been selected ahead of Rem Koolhaas, Jeanne Gang and David Chipperfield to design an Ismaili cultural centre in Houston, Texas. More about Farshid Moussavi to design first Ismaili Center in the USA
Canadian studio Revery Architecture has completed an opera house in Hong Kong's West Kowloon Cultural District, which is covered in curved aluminium slats arranged in wavy patterns. More about Curled aluminium ribs envelop Xiqu Centre for Chinese opera in Hong Kong
New York's Museum of Modern Art will close over the summer in order to complete its Diller Scofidio + Renfro-designed overhaul, then fully re-open four months later. More about MoMA to close during summer 2019 to complete expansion work
ODA has revealed visuals of Post, an adaptive reuse scheme that will revive Rotterdam's former post office, and include the construction of a 150-metre-high tower. More about ODA unveils plans for renovation of Rotterdam's historic post office
Selldorf Architects will design the Qianlong Garden Interpretation Center within a palace of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China, which has never been opened to the public. More about Selldorf Architects' visitor centre will open Forbidden City palace to public for first time
The Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida, is reopening following an overhaul by Foster + Partners, featuring a roof that curves around an old tree and a botanical garden for sculptures. More about Foster completes "revitalisation" of Florida's Norton Museum of Art
Yalin Mimarlik has completed a weathering-steel-clad archaeological museum in northwest Turkey, which is dedicated to the history of the city of Troy. More about Yalin Mimarlik completes Museum of Troy in Turkey
David Chipperfield's Zhejiang Museum of Natural History in China is a cluster of monolithic exhibition halls arranged around a garden on a sloping site. More about David Chipperfield embeds red natural-history museum into sloping earth
Herzog & de Meuron has updated its design for an arts building in Vancouver, which will be the Swiss firm's first project in Canada if approved. More about Herzog & de Meuron swaps wood for glass in Vancouver Art Gallery proposal
Scottish studio Collective Architecture has transformed a former observatory in Edinburgh into the Collective contemporary art centre, which is joined on its hilltop site by a new gallery, restaurant and welcome kiosk. More about Collective Architecture completes contemporary art venue on Edinburgh's Calton Hill
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' major extension and renovation of the Hood Museum of Art in New Hampshire has kept postmodern architect Charles Moore's glass and grey-brick stairway as its centrepiece. More about Tod Williams Billie Tsien overhauls postmodern Dartmouth Hood Museum
Bernard Tschumi Architects has completed the Exploratorium museum in China, which has giant industrial chimney-shaped exhibition spaces protruding from its perforated copper coloured exterior. More about Chimney-shaped galleries protrude from Exploratorium museum by Bernard Tschumi
The underground Museum of the Great Famine by Nizio Design International in Kyiv, Ukraine, will be topped by two misaligned green roofs. More about Nizio Design International reveals Museum of the Great Famine designs
The American Institute of Architects has bestowed its 25 Year Award upon Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London. More about Venturi Scott Brown's postmodern Sainsbury Wing wins AIA 25 Year Award
WORKac has unveiled its design for the Beirut Museum of Art in Lebanon, which features a facade of mismatched balconies that will be used to exhibit artwork. More about Balconies will double as exhibition space in WORKac's Beirut Museum of Art
Franco-Brazilian architect Elizabeth de Portzamparc has completed a museum of Roman history in the French city of Nîmes featuring glazed facades intended to recall the draped fabric of a toga. More about Elizabeth de Portzamparc completes Musée de la Romanité alongside Roman amphitheatre