Architecture studio ShedKM has created a church in Merseyside, UK, which is accessible from two parallel streets and has a transparent facade designed to glow at night. More about ShedKM designs Lighthouse Church as "physical and metaphorical beacon" for Merseyside
Danish architecture studio BIG is expanding a former Aldi supermarket in North Jutland, Denmark, to create a museum with a folded roof that emulates a sheet of paper. More about BIG set to top Museum for Paper Art with "a single sheet of paper"
Architecture studio Kengo Kuma & Associates has completed the Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian extension in Lisbon, which is defined by a wood-clad canopy that draws on Japanese architecture. More about Kengo Kuma & Associates adds sweeping canopy to Lisbon art centre
Fragments of rammed-earth walls have been incorporated into the concrete exterior of Villagers' Home, a visitor centre in Zhejiang Province by The Architectural Design and Research Institute of Zhejiang University. More about UAD completes concrete visitor centre to "preserve collective culture" of Chinese village
Czech practice Studio Acht has renovated the 19th-century provostry at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague, combining careful restoration with modern interventions. More about Studio Acht adds "strict yet delicate" additions to historic Czech provostry
An updated, postmodern value framework for architecture preservation is needed to protect buildings that are young or ubiquitous as well as those that are exceptional, writes Owen Hopkins. More about "Instead of the restrictive modernist concept of heritage, how about a postmodern one?"
Local architecture studio Cubeinside has completed a red-brick mosque in Bangladesh, eschewing traditional ornamentation in favour of "timeless" geometric forms. More about Cubeinside creates red-brick Bait Ur Raiyan Mosque in Bangladesh
French studio Atelier Projectiles has created a fully-glazed, concrete-framed building as the D-Day Museum in Normandy, France. More about Slim concrete colonnade fronts D-Day Museum in Normandy
A jagged form clad in perforated aluminium marks the Baroque Museum of Catalonia entrance in Manresa, Spain, which has been updated by local architect David Closes. More about David Closes adds jagged metal entrance to museum in Catalonia
The Suzhou Museum of Contemporary Art by Danish studio BIG, engineering firm Arts Group and architecture studio Front has topped out in China, with curved metal roofs designed as a "fifth facade". More about BIG tops waterfront art museum in Suzhou with swooping roof planes
Local studio Prokš Přikryl Architekti has converted a historic brick mill building in the Czech Republic into an arts centre, inserting galleries into its cavernous concrete grain silos. More about Prokš Přikryl Architekti transforms historic mill in Czech Republic into arts centre
Architecture firm Studio Anne Holtrop has renovated the Siyadi Pearl Museum and mosque in Bahrain, using a plastering technique designed to maintain "characteristics of the past". More about Studio Anne Holtrop adds textured plaster walls to Bahrain pearl museum
Japanese architecture studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has unveiled the Audeum audio museum in Seoul, which is wrapped by layers of suspended aluminium pipes. More about Kengo Kuma shrouds Seoul museum in cascading aluminium pipes
Danish architecture studio Schmidt Hammer Lassen has adaptively reused a domed cement factory in Shanghai, China, to create a performing arts and sports venue. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen transforms cement factory into West Bund Dome Art Center
Architecture studio MAD has created Ephemeral Bubble, an installation designed to resemble a bubble being blown by a century-old wooden house, for the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Japan. More about MAD adds giant bubble to century-old Japanese house
Local studio Djinjama has unveiled designs for Ngurra: The National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultural Precinct in Canberra, Australia. More about Djinjama reveals plans for "Indigenous-led" cultural centre in Canberra
Perforated screens of white marble filter light and air into the Third Space learning and cultural centre in Udaipur, India, which has been completed by architecture practice Studio Saar. More about Studio Saar wraps cultural centre with perforated marble screens
Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza has added an angular white-concrete extension to the Monastery of Leça do Balio in Porto to provide "a new landmark" for the site. More about Álvaro Siza adds angular concrete extension to renovated monastery in Porto
Sweeping roofs that symbolise movement and artistic expression will drape across Chungnam Art Center, which Danish studio 3XN is designing in South Korea. More about 3XN designs South Korean arts centre to evoke "dancer's pointed toe"
French studio Moreau Kusunoki Architectes and Mexican practice Frida Escobedo Studio have revealed their plans for a major overhaul of the high-tech Centre Pompidou in Paris. More about Moreau Kusunoki and Frida Escobedo set to renovate Centre Pompidou