This concert hall in Poland by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga features ribbed glass cladding and a spiky roof, giving it the appearance of an icy crown (+ slideshow). More about Translucent glass concert hall designed by Barozzi Veiga with a jagged roofline
News: Sou Fujimoto is one of three architects that have been selected to design buildings for a Hungarian museum complex in Budapest's City Park (+ slideshow). More about Sou Fujimoto to create House of Hungarian Music at new Budapest museum park
News: three international design teams, including architects Snøhetta and Allied Works, have developed designs for Hawaii's bid to host Barack Obama's presidential library. More about Hawaii unveils designs for Obama Presidential Centre bid
A grid of white concrete frames the alternating glass and timber walls of this library in a French village by Studio 02 Architectes (+ slideshow). More about French village library by Studio 02 Architectes presents a gridded facade of wood and glass
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects stacked up cuboid volumes with different dimensions and cladding finishes to create this library in Halifax, Canada (+ slideshow). More about Halifax library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen comprises four stacked blocks
News: OMA is set to transform part of a former shipyard in Shanghai into a 1,500-square-metre exhibition centre, after winning an international design competition. More about OMA scoops Shanghai exhibition centre competition
One huge window frames views out over the harbour from inside this library that Irish firm Carr Cotter & Naessens has completed in a harbour-side town near Dublin (+ slideshow). More about Granite-clad library by Carr Cotter & Naessens faces out over the Irish Sea
News: Mexican architect Fernando Romero has unveiled his design for a Latin American art museum in Miami – the so-called "capital of Latin America" – during this week's Art Basel and Design Miami events (+ movie). More about Latin American Art Museum by Fernando Romero revealed for downtown Miami
News: the Guggenheim is just one of a string of art institutions expanding internationally with new architecture projects. The Helsinki competition represents part of its plans to "stop being an exporting institution, and instead be a collaborative one," according to director Richard Armstrong (+ interview). More about Guggenheim Helsinki: "We've got quite a lot to chew on"
News: after commissioning landmark museums by Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank Gehry in the 20th century, the Guggenheim has shortlisted six little-known practices for its latest outpost in Helsinki. More about Six emerging architects shortlisted for Guggenheim Helsinki design competition
Oslo studio Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter has reinterpreted the traditional Norwegian stave church to create a modern chapel featuring folded timber surfaces and a huge pyramid-shaped spire (+ slideshow). More about Reiulf Ramstad completes wooden church with a grand spire beside a Norwegian fjord
Rows of irregularly shaped bricks will create patterns around these three towers that architecture graduate Olivia Wright has designed to transform a derelict and vandalised pottery factory in the English midlands into a conservation centre. More about RCA graduate Olivia Wright to convert vandalised bottle kilns into pottery preservation centre
Comoco Architects has added a third new structure to the grounds of the medieval Pombal Castle in Portugal – a limestone-clad visitor centre that doubles as a viewing platform (+ slideshow). More about Pombal Castle visitor centre offers a peek through a historic stone wall
News: a trio of international architecture firms will redevelop and add new facilities to Montreal's natural science museum, housed in a vast glass velodrome within the grounds of the city's former Olympic park. More about AZPML, Lacaton & Vassal and Kuehn Malvezzi to redesign Montreal's natural science Biodome
Multi-tonal layers of concrete resemble bands of sediment on the walls of this visitor centre designed by Swiss architect Max Dudler for a medieval fortress in Germany (+ slideshow). More about Sparrenberg Castle visitor centre by Max Dudler boasts striated concrete walls
White concrete surfaces vary from matte to polished on the walls of this library and concert hall, completed by London studio DRDH on the waterfront of Bodø, Norway (+ slideshow). More about White concrete cultural centre by DRDH nestles up against a Norwegian harbour
News: after a quarter of a century of decay, a full design team has been appointed to convert the Brutalist ruins of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, into a major venue for art and culture. More about Brutalist seminary to be resurrected in 2015 after 25 years of neglect
News: international heritage body UNESCO has launched a competition to design a cultural centre on the boundary of the Bamiyan Valley site, which housed two giant seventh-century statues of Buddha that were destroyed by Taliban militants in 2001. More about UNESCO launches competition to design cultural centre in war-torn Afghanistan
Italian architect Renzo Piano has upgraded the facilities of the Harvard Art Museums in Boston, Massachusetts, by adding a new gallery wing and transforming a former courtyard into a top-lit atrium (+ slideshow). More about Renzo Piano reconfigures Harvard Art Museums around a grand courtyard atrium
Gaps in the upside-down barrel-vaulted ceiling of this Japanese church by Takeshi Hosaka funnel slices of light into the concrete-lined hall (+ slideshow). More about Six inverted arches outline the roof of Shonan Christ Church by Takeshi Hosaka