Cultural buildings
Funeral chapel by Tria Studio brings gentle winds through its hollow centre
Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts unveils campus redesign by Steven Holl
Bruther slots curving community centre into crowded Paris neighbourhood
Caruso St John to “restructure” Asplund’s Stockholm City Library
Hawaii unveils designs for Obama Presidential Centre bid
French village library by Studio 02 Architectes presents a gridded facade of wood and glass
Granite-clad library by Carr Cotter & Naessens faces out over the Irish Sea
Latin American Art Museum by Fernando Romero revealed for downtown Miami
Reiulf Ramstad completes wooden church with a grand spire beside a Norwegian fjord
RCA graduate Olivia Wright to convert vandalised bottle kilns into pottery preservation centre
Sparrenberg Castle visitor centre by Max Dudler boasts striated concrete walls
White concrete cultural centre by DRDH nestles up against a Norwegian harbour
Coop Himmelb(l)au’s Musée des Confluences opens on a river peninsula in Lyon
Archea Associati creates fruit-inspired buildings for Yanqing Grape Expo
Translucent glass concert hall designed by Barozzi Veiga with a jagged roofline
Sou Fujimoto to create House of Hungarian Music at new Budapest museum park
Halifax library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen comprises four stacked blocks
OMA scoops Shanghai exhibition centre competition
Guggenheim Helsinki: “We’ve got quite a lot to chew on”
Six emerging architects shortlisted for Guggenheim Helsinki design competition
Pombal Castle visitor centre offers a peek through a historic stone wall
AZPML, Lacaton & Vassal and Kuehn Malvezzi to redesign Montreal’s natural science Biodome
Brutalist seminary to be resurrected in 2015 after 25 years of neglect