Cultural buildings
Construction starts on Jean Nouvel’s National Art Museum of China
Óscar Miguel Ares Álvarez converts Spanish slaughterhouse into community centre
OMA to create contemporary art gallery for Galeries Lafayette in Paris
Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset gallery is housed within historic farm buildings
Nieto Sobejano scores Estonian cultural centre for composer Arvo Pärt
Kengo Kuma’s Aix en Provence Conservatory of Music boasts pleated aluminium walls
Baroque palace renovated to create Casal Balaguer Cultural Centre
Christian de Portzamparc’s Cidade das Artes adds curving concrete fins to the Rio skyline
David Chipperfield triumphs in Nobel Center competition
Portuguese arts centre by Louise Braverman pays tribute to local painter Nadir Afonso
Heatherwick unveils gallery inside grain silos for Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront
Rojkind Arquitectos renovates Mexico’s National Film Archive and Film Institute
Allies and Morrison references Brutalism with concrete-clad studio for Rambert Dance Company
Fumihiko Maki completes white granite museum for the Aga Khan Foundation
Shingle-clad cultural centre by Modostudio offers spectacular mountain views
Adam Richards Architects unites old and new at Ditchling art and craft museum
Sinjinmal Building by Studio GAON occupies its site like “a book in an empty shelf”
Fumihiko Maki designs China’s “first major museum of design”
David Adjaye and Ron Arad reveal defeated National Holocaust Monument design
Knot-shaped museum by Chae Pereira Architects honours Korean artist Chang Ucchin
Zaha Hadid’s Dongdaemun Design Plaza opens in Seoul
Concrete auditorium by Valentiny HVP Architects built for Brazil’s Música em Trancoso festival
Paris music school by Basalt Architecture features copper walls and cantilevered studios
