New York architect Daniel Libeskind has released plans for a Kurdish museum in Iraq, featuring his signature sharp angles and interlocking volumes (+ slideshow). More about Daniel Libeskind unveils design for museum of Kurdish culture in Iraq
Coffey Architects has added a library with a perforated facade to London's Science Museum, as part of a major redevelopment that will also include galleries by Muf, Wilkinson Eyre and the late Zaha Hadid. More about Perforations create dappled lighting inside Coffey Architects' Science Museum research centre
Slabs of folded concrete give this cultural centre by São Paulo Arquitetura a seemingly impenetrable appearance, but hidden behind its windowless walls are light-filled galleries and a plant-lined gully (+ slideshow). More about Faceted concrete and latticed timber frame Brazilian cultural centre by São Paulo Arquitetura
Los Angeles architecture firm wHY has completed an expansion of the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, featuring facades of fritted glass and corrugated metal panels. More about WHY expands Louisville's Speed Art Museum with a corrugated metal facade
London's Design Museum has announced that its new John Pawson-designed home in the former Commonwealth Institute will open on 24 November 2016 – two years later than originally planned. More about Design Museum announces November opening for new John Pawson-designed home
Architects office ARX Portugal has completed a beachside civic centre on Portugal's Costa Nova, featuring an exhibition hall facing out to sea and a series of sloping rooftop terraces (+ slideshow). More about Seaside cultural centre by ARX Portugal boasts an intricate wooden framework
Dutch architecture firm OMA is to transform a set of four warehouses on Dubai's Alserkal Avenue into a multi-purpose venue for cultural events. More about OMA unveils plans for first project in Dubai
New images have been unveiled of the proposed Olympicopolis, a new cultural district at London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park designed by architects Allies and Morrison and O'Donnell + Tuomey. More about New images show £1.3 billion masterplan for London's Olympic Park
Marking International Women's Day, design studio Muf has embarked on a project to transform a narrowboat into a touring cultural centre promoting contemporary female artists. More about Muf adapts former cargo boat to create floating arts centre for women
Swiss studio Herzog & de Meuron has completed the restoration of a 19th-century room at the Park Avenue Armory, a cultural building in Manhattan with interiors by Tiffany & Co's first design director Louis C Tiffany (+ slideshow). More about Herzog & de Meuron restores a Park Avenue Armory room designed by Louis C Tiffany
A tower with a large window rises above this New Zealand church rebuilt by Dalman Architecture, replacing the corner spire of the original building destroyed in earthquakes (+ slideshow). More about Window with cross-shaped frame forms beacon for rebuilt church by Dalman Architecture
Opinion: the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art's temporary move in to the Whitney's old unprotected Breuer building is the result of behind-the-scenes machinations of a major donor. Thank goodness, says Alan G Brake. More about "New York should give Breuer's building lasting protection"
A long-awaited cultural centre designed by architects Patrick Berger and Jacques Anziutti is nearing completion on the site of Les Halles – a historic Parisian marketplace demolished in the 1970s. More about Les Halles to reopen as glass-roofed cultural centre and shopping complex
Amanda Levete's London studio AL_A has won an invited competition to create a mosque as part of the Foster + Partners-designed World Trade Center Abu Dhabi development. More about Amanda Levete wins competition to design mosque for Abu Dhabi's World Trade Center
The schematic design for a glass-clad Islamic cultural centre in New York by local architecture firm Buro Koray Duman aims to dispel fear-based attitudes towards the Islamic faith. More about Buro Koray Duman aims to dispel fears about Islam through design of New York cultural centre
Several windows splay from one end of this weathering steel church, designed by Vicens + Ramos as the centrepiece for a growing residential community near Madrid (+ slideshow). More about Pre-rusted steel church by Vicens + Ramos features an "explosion" of windows
Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has completed a pine-clad cultural museum in western Norway, featuring a spiky roofline designed to help break up the scale of the building (+ slideshow). More about Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter creates spiky roofline for Romsdal Folk Museum in Norway
Austrian architects Winkler + Ruck Architekten and Ferdinand Certov have been selected to create a "floating" roof extension for Vienna's Wien Museum. More about "Floating" extension to be built over roof of Vienna's Wien Museum
This weathering steel bridge by Branch Studio Architects spans a quadrangle at a secondary school in Melbourne's western suburbs, forming an art gallery and viewpoint for students en route to class (+ slideshow). More about Branch Studio Architects embellishes school "flyover" with concertinaed Corten screen
The glazed public areas of this cultural centre on the French island of Corsica are sandwiched between a solid concrete base and an upper storey clad in perforated golden metal (+ slideshow). More about Cultural Centre of Bastia contrasts a dark concrete base with a golden crown