Cultural buildings
SOM creates a rounded library wrapped in aluminium fins for Chicago’s Chinatown
Maxcube by Studio Koossino houses creative workspaces within concrete walls
David Chipperfield reveals £185 million masterplan for Berlin brewery
Rick Mather Architects refurbishes and expands London’s Lyric Hammersmith theatre
MAD’s sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China
New photos offer a closer look around Jean Nouvel’s Philharmonie de Paris
Pale travertine walls frame Cour et Jardin cultural centre by Atelier Fernandez & Serres
LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum reopens with KPF-designed metal-ribbon facade
Julien De Smedt’s angular concrete youth centre in Lille features a colourful striped wall
Trio of geometric forms by Shift Architecture Urbanism form new Dutch museum complex
Estudio Beldarrain uses reclaimed railway sleepers to extend Spanish library
S-shaped extension links two sides of Copenhagen’s Mariehøj Kulturcenter
Chipperfield unveils design for partially buried concert hall in Germany
Glazed theatre by van Dongen-Koschuch occupies former dockland buildings
Gluckman Tang designs museums for art and model trains in western Massachusetts
Museum of Tomorrow by Santiago Calatrava opens in Rio de Janeiro
Thomas Heatherwick to redesign home of New York Philharmonic orchestra
China “can’t buy culture” with museum boom, say critics
Wandel Lorch completes chapel with bulging brickwork in Hamburg docklands
Brown + Brown transforms derelict stone buildings into boatbuilding workshop
KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
Mu Xin Art Museum by OLI Architecture sits over a lake in eastern China
OMA wins competition to design huge Manchester arts venue The Factory
