Cultural buildings
Carmody Groarke’s new White Cube gallery is an angular timber and plastic pavilion
Vector Architects completes a seaside library with board-marked concrete walls
Claesson Koivisto Rune pays tribute to Donald Judd with first US building
Studio Farris adds rusty steel extension to a library in Bruges
Adjaye in the frame for Obama library ahead of official announcement
Italy’s Museo della Merda is full of shit
Community centre by Kengo Kuma features playrooms with undulating floorboards
Wise Architecture erects bamboo temple on South Korean coast for victims of a ferry disaster
Safdie Architects designs museum to honour American war heroes
BEL Architecten leaves rough surfaces on show in warehouse converted into a cultural centre
Slate-clad chapel by Eriko Kasahara boasts a veil-inspired ceiling structure
Hernández Arquitectos’ minimal white monastery features a concrete-clad bell tower
Gianluca Gelmini inserts an angular iron staircase inside a medieval Italian fortress
Haworth Tompkins completes renovation of Denys Lasdun’s National Theatre
Ålgård Church by Link Arkitektur features a concave vaulted roof
Artists rally to protect Russell Page garden at New York’s Frick museum
Log-clad museum by Bornstein Lyckefors honours the legacy of Finnish slash-and-burn farmers
OMA’s Fondazione Prada art centre opens in Milan
Paris library by Agence Pascale Guédot angles around an old walnut tree
Renzo Piano’s new building for the Whitney set to open
Modern Art gallery takes over three London warehouses opposite a Hawksmoor church
Korean island visitor centre by OUJAE Architects features a remodelled schoolhouse
Henning Larsen reveals designs for new mosque in Copenhagen
