Cultural buildings
“Instead of the restrictive modernist concept of heritage, how about a postmodern one?”
Cubeinside creates red-brick Bait Ur Raiyan Mosque in Bangladesh
BIG tops waterfront art museum in Suzhou with swooping roof planes
Prokš Přikryl Architekti transforms historic mill in Czech Republic into arts centre
Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Dome Art Center
MAD adds giant bubble to century-old Japanese house
Álvaro Siza adds angular concrete extension to renovated monastery in Porto
3XN designs South Korean arts centre to evoke “dancer’s pointed toe”
Lloyd Wright chapel to be disassembled following ongoing California landslide
MAD reveals construction progress on Hainan Science Museum in China
Dezeen Debate features “an intelligent re-use of an industrial structure”
Kunstsilo gallery opens within “basilica-like” grain silo in Norway
Slim concrete colonnade fronts D-Day Museum in Normandy
David Closes adds jagged metal entrance to museum in Catalonia
Studio Anne Holtrop adds textured plaster walls to Bahrain pearl museum
Kengo Kuma shrouds Seoul museum in cascading aluminium pipes
Djinjama reveals plans for “Indigenous-led” cultural centre in Canberra
Studio Saar wraps cultural centre with perforated marble screens
Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo set to renovate Centre Pompidou
Plans for “varied and playful” redesign of Ghent art museum unveiled
Dezeen debate features “a beautiful and superbly executed” church in China
Inuce designs Mountain Church of Julong as “more than just a place of worship”
Office Winhov converts historic Amsterdam buildings into National Holocaust Museum
