Cultural buildings
De Matos Ryan overhauls York Theatre Royal and its 1960s extension
Jim Stephenson photographs Eero Saarinen’s “breathtaking” MIT Chapel
Alpine chapel designed by Joaquim Portela Arquitetos as a giant light funnel
Le Corbusier’s National Museum of Western Art is his only building in the Far East
Recycled ice cream tubs cover walls of elevated Microlibrary by Shau
Bordeaux wine museum by XTU Architects features bulging gold-striped body
Shakespearean-style wooden theatre by Studio Andrew Todd opens in France
Renzo Piano completes Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on a huge artificial hill
OMA’s Pierre Lassonde Pavilion doubles the size of Quebec art museum
Architect blames far-right parties for attack on Shakespearean theatre in France
Adjaye Associates chosen for Latvian Museum of Contemporary Art
Studio Inches adds concrete and granite gallery to Alpine art museum
FABG renovates and expands Quebec’s Musée d’art de Joliette
Coussée & Goris and RCR Arquitectes use iron-coloured concrete for Belgian crematorium
UNESCO adds 17 Le Corbusier projects to World Heritage List
KRONA centre by Mecanoo and Code features zigzagging concrete staircases
John McAslan to redesign Britain’s largest mosque in south London
Albanian photography museum by Casanova + Hernandez features gridded glass walls
Parthenon could be moved to London, says RCA graduate Kit Stiby Harris
Tidal waters wash underneath Seashore Chapel by Vector Architects
Tate Modern releases movie showing construction of Herzog & de Meuron’s extension
Tate Modern Switch House by Herzog & de Meuron opens to the public
Steven Holl’s Bloch Building in Missouri recaptured in photographs by Iwan Baan
