Dorte Mandrup designs third Wadden Sea centre for the Netherlands
Rooftop seal pools and a sloping plinth that meets the tide will feature in Dorte Mandrup's visitor centre for the UNESCO-protected Wadden Sea in theĀ Netherlands. More
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Memorial in Alabama acknowledges violence against African Americans
A memorial and museum dedicated to the legacy of racial violence and injustice in America are set to open in Montgomery, Alabama. More
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Mecanoo's performing arts centre nears completion in Taiwan
Dutch practice Mecanoo is putting the finishing touches to anĀ arts centre in the Taiwanese port city of Kaohsiung, which plays host to a selection of opera houses, concert halls and an open-air theatre set into its bulging roof. More
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OMA to extend historic Jewish temple in LA with skewed pavilion
Architecture firm OMA has revealed the design of its first cultural building in California: a pavilion featuring tilted walls and patterned openings that will accompany a Jewish temple in Los Angeles. More
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MAD's museum for George Lucas breaks ground in Los Angeles
Fresh renderings of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art by Beijing studio MAD have been released to coincide with the project's groundbreaking in Los Angeles. More
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Studio Gang unveils plans for Arkansas Art Center overhaul
Chicago-based firm Studio Gang has revealed plans to add a series of glazed pavilions with pleated roofs to an arts centre in Arkansas, as part of a major renovation and extension project. More
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UNStudio plans new cultural centre with rooftop cinemas for Paris
UNStudio has won a competition to design aĀ new cinema and cultural centre withĀ weathering steelĀ walls andĀ green roofsĀ as part of BIG's EuropaCity masterplan on the outskirts of Paris. More
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David Adjaye's Spyscape museum of espionage opens in New York
British architect David Adjaye has completed work on New York'sĀ museum of spying, which invites its first visitors to become undercover agents this weekend. More
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Jamie Fobert's Kettle's Yard extension echoes "calm aesthetic" of existing gallery
Jamie Fobert Architects has completed an extension to Kettle's Yard gallery in Cambridge, England, adding a series of new exhibition and education spaces that complement the intimate and relaxed rooms of the original converted house. More
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Productora builds Mexican centre for archeology and textiles using tinted concrete
Mexican architecture firm Productora has used pigmented concrete walls, brickwork steps and timber-framed windows to construct this museum and library in Oaxaca. More
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Staggered glass walls front visitor centre at Louisiana plantation house
New Orleans firm Trahan Architects has completed a visitor centre for an 18th-century plantation in Louisiana, using translucent glazing to blur views of occupants from the outside "like an impressionistĀ painting". More
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White concrete volumes conceal bright red auditorium in Dominique Coulon & AssociƩs' theatre
Stacked white,Ā concrete volumes conceal the vibrant red, pink and orange interior of thisĀ theatre in the former mining town of Freyming-Merlebach by Dominique Coulon & AssociĆ©s. More
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Grimshaw Architects reveals first image of Chinese Eden Project
Grimshaw ArchitectsĀ has released the first visual of the Eden Project in Qingdao, one of six outposts of the Cornish ecological tourist attraction the practice is working on. More
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Triangular timber roof shelters the ruins of Sweden's oldest church
AIX Arkitekter has completed an exhibition hall and shelter, to protect the site of a ninth-century church in the village of Varnhem, southwest Sweden. More
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Open-air chapel designed by Plano Humano Arquitectos to resemble Scout's tent
This tent-like chapel, for a Scout campground in Portugal's rural Idanha-a-Nova region, features a folded zinc-clad roof that opens up towards the surrounding landscape. More
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"There is no need to destroy one significant cultural legacy in order to celebrate another"
The Obama Presidential Center will be presented to the Chicago City Council today. But its proposed siting in the city's Jackson Park will both remove acres of public land and blight Fredrick Law Olmsted's historic landscape design, argues The Cultural Landscape Foundation president Charles A Birnbaum. More
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BNIM resurrects Missouri church with lightwells and exposed masonry
American architecture firm BNIM has renovated a fire-ravaged church in Kansas City, creating a new layout and light-filled interiors to enhance what is left of the original structure. More
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Obamas reveal more details and images for Presidential Center in Chicago
Barack and Michelle Obama have released a set of new renderings and a movie showing the cultural complex celebrating his presidency, which is to be built on Chicago's South Side. More
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LMN Architects combines textured surfaces for Iowa City concert hall
American studio LMN Architects has completed a performing arts centre for the University of Iowa that features twisted terracotta panels, glass shingles and bespoke acoustic panels made of metal and felt. More
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Prefabricated and mobile components combine to form The People's Station cultural centre
People's Architecture Office has completed a modular cultural centre in the Chinese city of Yantai, featuring a prefabricated metal structure and portable rooms that can be detached and cycled to other locations. More