Cultural buildings
Seoul house becomes museum highlighting the plight of second world war “comfort women”
Stanton Williams wins approval for plans to open up the Royal Opera House
Ahn Jung-geun Memorial Hall honours a Korean independence activist
Ole Scheeren combines an auction house and museum beside Beijing’s Forbidden City
Jean Nouvel takes legal action to distance himself from “unfinished” Philharmonie de Paris
Competition launched to create youth centre inside Preston’s Brutalist bus station
Glazed pavilions form a community centre in the grounds of an old Flemish manse
UNESCO unveils winning cultural centre design for heritage site in war-torn Afghanistan
The Observatory is a mobile charred-timber artist’s studio by Feilden Clegg Bradley
MUMA unveils glass and brick extensions to Manchester’s Whitworth gallery
Lakeside hotel by Ryuichi Ashizawa adjoins a wedding chapel with a musical facade
Work begins on Jean Nouvel’s woodland arts complex in China
Thomas Phifer adds reflective white wing to Corning Museum of Glass in New York
Haworth Tompkins transforms an old brick building for the Donmar Warehouse
Dubai unveils vision for Museum of the Future to showcase innovation in design
Studio Inches renovates Alpine house to create a private gallery
London council cans controversial Crystal Palace project
Design competition announced for new Bauhaus Museum
Ateliers O-S adds golden metal walls to cultural centre beside a French cemetery
Herzog & de Meuron unveils updated design for Hong Kong M+ museum
Copper panels give a flame-like appearance to Museum of Fire in Poland
Tick-shaped art studio by Christian Tonko follows the slope of an Austrian hillside
AMO’s Fondazione Prada set to open in Milan
