Cultural buildings
Pattersons Associates uses stainless steel to create shimmering art museum devoted to Len Lye
Concrete cultural centre completed by King Kong architects in picturesque French town
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners unveils design for International Spy Museum
Concrete concert hall by Rojkind Arquitectos will overlook the Gulf of Mexico
Auckland art gallery by Mitchell and Stout Architects features an aluminium-plated facade
White Block Gallery by SsD features fritted glass designed to evoke morning fog
Small chapel by Estudio Cella stands alone in the heart of an Argentinian forest
David Adjaye designs new home for Harlem’s Studio Museum
MVRDV’s Spijkenisse library has become a “proud mountain of books” says Winy Maas
Concave facades on twin buildings by Moon Hoon create moon-shaped indents
Rainbow Chapel by Coordination Asia is a multi-coloured wedding venue in Shanghai
Charles Correa’s crystalline Islamic centre joins the Aga Khan Museum in a Toronto park
Primus Arkitekter transforms Fritz Hansen factory into a library and cultural centre
Zaha Hadid buries a museum in the peak of an Alpine mountain
Gallery for ceramic artist Jung Gil-Young is camouflaged behind mirrored walls
UNStudio selected by residents of Den Bosch to design new city theatre
Olson Kundig’s Tacoma Art Museum wing has movable screens that “roll like railroad box cars”
Mecanoo scales back additions to Mies van der Rohe’s Washington DC library
Rogers Stirk Harbour to design conservation facility for Musée du Louvre
Omgeving’s black brick library in Zoersel is subdivided into smaller blocks
Rafael de La-Hoz elevates a cultural centre around two plazas in Alcobendas
MVRDV’s Zaanstad Cultural Cluster will house five Dutch institutions in one building
Francisco Mangado expands a Spanish museum by adding a new building behind a historic facade
