Cultural buildings
Renzo Piano reconfigures Harvard Art Museums around a grand courtyard atrium
Six inverted arches outline the roof of Shonan Christ Church by Takeshi Hosaka
BIG presents $2 billion plans for Smithsonian campus overhaul
Construction starts on David Adjaye’s spiralling stone extinction memorial
Herzog & de Meuron unveils curving stone design for contentious Israel library
Urbain Architectencollectief converts brick fire station into Kortrijk cultural centre
Restoration of Alvar Aalto’s Viipuri Library wins 2014 Modernism Prize
Work starts on Calatrava-designed Greek Orthodox Church on World Trade Center site
Visitors to Henning Larsen’s Moesgaard Museum can walk over its grassy sloping roof
Li Xiaodong wins inaugural Moriyama Prize for “modest” Liyuan Library
Garden chapel by AZL Architects features semi-transparent walls and a butterfly roof
Brutalist buildings: National Theatre, London by Denys Lasdun
Copper-clad chapel in Finland has a curving wooden frame like a ship’s hull
Badajoz Fine Arts Museum extensions feature speckled walls and bevelled edges
Curving voids pierce the floors of Anttinen Oiva Architects’ Helsinki library
Peter Haimerl’s Bavarian concert hall has a rough stone exterior and a raw concrete interior
Furumori Koichi adds timber latticework to a concrete Japanese temple extension
MAD reveals concept design for George Lucas’ Chicago art museum
MX_SI’s addition to the Serlachius Museum Gösta has a stripy facade based on an “abstract forest”
Philips Wing by Cruz y Ortiz completes the 11-year renovation of the Rijksmuseum
ALA’s Kuopio City Theatre extension features a crinkled facade
Schmidt Hammer Lassen’s Canadian library mimics the angular roofs of its neighbours
Spiny gallery extension by 5468796 named Future Project of the Year 2014
