Amongst the bustling 24-hour shopping district of South Korea's capital city, Zaha Hadid has completed a 38,000-square-metre cultural complex with a twinkling aluminium facade (+ movie). More about Zaha Hadid's Dongdaemun Design Plaza opens in Seoul
This shell-like concrete structure with triangular slices is an auditorium designed by Luxembourg studio Valentiny HVP Architects for an annual music festival in the Brazilian town of Trancoso (+ slideshow). More about Concrete auditorium by Valentiny HVP Architects built for Brazil's Música em Trancoso festival
News: British designer Thomas Heatherwick has unveiled plans to create a new art gallery at the V&A Waterfront museum in Cape Town by hollowing out sections of a grain silo complex. More about Heatherwick unveils gallery inside grain silos for Cape Town's V&A Waterfront
An aluminium canopy speckled with triangular perforations shelters the space between old and new buildings at Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute, recently renovated by Rojkind Arquitectos (+ slideshow). More about Rojkind Arquitectos renovates Mexico's National Film Archive and Film Institute
Two dance studios at the top of this copper-clad music conservatory in Paris by local studio Basalt Architecture project outwards from the facade to capture plenty of natural daylight (+ slideshow). More about Paris music school by Basalt Architecture features copper walls and cantilevered studios
This performing arts centre in São Paulo by Brasil Arquitetura features huge concrete volumes lifted off the ground to create accessible public spaces and has been named on the shortlist for the Designs of the Year awards, announced this week (+ slideshow). More about Praça das Artes by Brasil Arquitetura features concrete boxes projecting over a public plaza
Ornamental doors and windows sit within recesses that appear to have been carved away from the coarse granite walls of this mausoleum in Minneapolis by American architecture firm HGA (+ slideshow). More about Garden Mausoleum by HGA features rough granite, white marble and gleaming onyx
Lisbon office Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos has designed a Jewish cultural centre in the historic heart of Trancoso, Portugal, with a sharp corner that bisects two narrow cobbled streets (+ slideshow). More about Jewish cultural centre with an acutely angled corner by Gonçalo Byrne Arquitectos
A sequence of arches creates topsy-turvy openings and curvy doorways through the spaces of this art gallery in Beijing by design collective Penda (+ slideshow). More about Beijing art gallery by Penda features topsy-turvy archways
Italian architect Andrea Dragoni has extended a cemetery in an ancient Italian town by adding rows of monumental travertine walls with public plazas and artworks slotted in between (+ slideshow). More about Cemetery complex by Andrea Dragoni contains public plazas and site-specific artworks
Bright red walls contrast with vivid green lawns at this art and culture centre in Portugal by Lisbon architecture firm Future Architecture Thinking (+ slideshow). More about Art and culture centre with bright red walls by Future Architecture Thinking
Danish architects COBE and Transform have completed an aluminium-clad museum of maritime history in Norway with a zigzagging profile modelled on the shapes of local wooden buildings (+ slideshow). More about COBE and Transform complete the zigzagging Porsgrunn Maritime Museum
The new Museum Luthers Sterbehaus by Stuttgart architects Von M is a grey-brick extension to the house where Martin Luther died - but it turns out the Christian reformer "actually died in another building around the corner" (+ slideshow + photos by Zooey Braun). More about Martin Luther "death house" museum by Von M built at wrong address
News: Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen has won a competition to design a theatre and cultural centre in Hjørring, Denmark, with plans for a series of buildings clad in Corten steel (+ slideshow). More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen wins competition for Danish theatre complex
Zaha Hadid Architects has completed the Heydar Aliyev Center in Baku, Azerbaijan - a cultural centre with walls that rise seamlessly from the surface of the surrounding plaza (+ slideshow). More about Zaha Hadid's Heydar Aliyev Center rises from the landscape in Baku
Thatch covers both the walls and roof of this wildlife museum and research centre in Beautour, France (+ slideshow). More about Beautour thatched museum and biodiversity research centre by Guinée*Potin Architectes
Israeli studio SO Architecture added this auditorium and gallery to a hilltop war memorial in Nesher, Israel, and tilted it upwards so that it faces towards the sky (+ slideshow). More about Nesher Memorial auditorium and gallery by SO Architecture
Dutch studio Marc Koehler Architects has extended a former primary school in rural Belgium to create a community centre with a folded roof (+ slideshow). More about Community Home by Marc Koehler Architects
Ornate wooden screens shroud one side of this theatre in Wuzhen, China, while the other side is shielded behind angular brickwork fins (+ slideshow). More about Wuzhen Theatre by Kris Yao and Artech Architects
This museum in Warsaw, Poland, by Finnish studio Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects has a deep, cavernous entrance hall that cuts right through the building (+ slideshow). More about Museum of the History of Polish Jews by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects