Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has unveiled plans for an art and photography museum in Germany, which will feature an 80-metre-long rammed-earth wall and a timber pergola. More about Timber museum to be Kéré Architecture's first cultural project in Germany
Carlotta Di Sandro and Cecilia Marcheschi of Atelier Vago have added pops of bright blue and yellow to the Pailunga creative space in a deconsecrated chapel near Pisa, Italy. More about Atelier Vago transforms Tuscan chapel into "house for art"
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French architect Jean Nouvel has overhauled a 19th-century department store alongside the Louvre in central Paris to create a new home for the Fondation Cartier, featuring moveable gallery spaces. More about Jean Nouvel arranges Fondation Cartier around five giant moving floors
Architecture studios Renzo Piano Building Workshop and PTW Architects have broken ground on the Isola Della Musica opera house in Hanoi, which was designed to have a pearl-like appearance. More about Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs pearlescent opera house on Hanoi lake
New Zealand studio Bull O'Sullivan Architecture has perched a compact aluminium-clad chapel on a hillside overlooking the Lyttelton Harbour near Christchurch. More about Bull O'Sullivan Architecture perches tiny chapel on New Zealand hillside
New York-based studios GLO and Present Forms transformed a former tobacco warehouse in Hudson into a community education and arts centre. More about GLO and Present Forms create "Swiss Army knife" community centre in Hudson
London studio Carmody Groarke has overhauled a gallery at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, UK, reinstating 19th-century details including timber trusses and cobbled floors. More about Carmody Groarke completes "transformative yet discreet" overhaul of Manchester museum
A pair of old farm buildings in Denmark will be incorporated into this museum, designed by architecture studio Cobe to celebrate the work of Danish furniture designer Hans J Wegner. More about Cobe plans Museum Wegner for "an absolute legend in Danish design"
British designer Asif Khan has converted a Soviet-era cinema in Kazakhstan into Tselinny Center of Contemporary Culture, updating its concrete structure and 18-metre-tall auditorium. More about Asif Khan transforms Soviet cinema into "cloud-like" cultural centre in Almaty
An underground air raid shelter designed to ensure "comfort and dignity" will form part of the Holy Trinity Church, which Ukrainian studio Aranchii Architects is designing in Kyiv. More about Aranchii Architects designs Ukrainian church with community air raid shelter
London studio Hopkins Architects has completed a performing arts and education centre at the University of Oxford, which features a four-storey atrium and a Passivhaus concert hall. More about Hopkins Architects arranges University of Oxford arts centre around four-storey atrium
Japanese studio SANAA has reached completion on its largest cultural project to date, Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan. More about SANAA completes Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan
Danish architect Julius Nielsen has created a small timber church in Copenhagen, which features a 12-sided hall symbolising the 12 apostles. More about Julius Nielsen completes tiny 12-sided church in Copenhagen
Architecture studio Wright and Wright has completed the renovation and extension of Lambeth Palace, the 800-year-old home of the Archbishop of Canterbury in London. More about Wright and Wright balances "continuity and change" in Lambeth Palace overhaul
Construction has begun on the Tadao Ando-designed National Museum of Uzbekistan in Tashkent, which will be comprised of interconnected concrete squares, circles and triangles. More about Interlinked geometric shapes form Tadao Ando-designed National Museum of Uzbekistan
Sweden's Kiruna Church is being transported in its entirety to a new location along a five-kilometre route to accommodate the expansion of the world's largest underground iron-ore mine. More about Swedish city of Kiruna wheels entire 672-tonne-church intact to new location
Italian studio Carlo Ratti Associati has revealed the design for the Grand Fendika Cultural Center in Ethiopia that will "invite the energy of Addis Ababa in". More about Carlo Ratti unveils design for Grand Fendika Cultural Center in Addis Ababa
Ukrainian architecture studio Forma has renovated Pavilion 13, a Soviet-era exhibition hall in Kyiv, carefully updating its modernist structure for contemporary use. More about Forma revives Soviet-era exhibition hall in Kyiv "without erasing its character"
Dutch studio MVRDV has overhauled a former industrial site in Shanghai to create the Gate M West Bund Dream Center, a riverside cultural district punctuated with bright orange circulation routes. More about MVRDV adds orange stairs to Shanghai cement factory