Museum de Lakenhal, a 375-year-old building in the Dutch town of Leiden, has been given a contemporary extension and redesign by Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven and Julian Harrap Architects. More about Museum de Lakenhal given redesign and concertina-style pale brick extension
US firm KoningEizenberg Architecture left worn-looking ornate walls, brickwork and columns inside this museum for children in Pittsburgh, which occupies a historic library that was struck by lightning. More about MuseumLab opens in ruins of lightning-struck Pittsburgh library
Monolithic concrete colonnades wrap around a pool in this studio and gallery that Mexican architect Arcadio Marín has designed for his sculptor brother Javier. More about Arcadio and Javier Marín design Mexican art gallery to be an "inhabitable sculpture"
A visitor centre for the village of Xiahuangyu, China, is formed of interconnected pavilions built around existing pine trees by DnA_Design and Architecture. More about Riverside visitor centre in China built around existing trees
Japanese architect Tadao Ando is restoring an 18th-century stock exchange building in Paris and turning it into a contemporary art gallery. More about Photos reveal work underway at Tadao Ando's Bourse de Commerce
Henning Larsen has revealed plans for The Arctic University Museum of Norway, which will evoke a cascade of glass beacons on the coast of Tromsø. More about Henning Larsen designs Norwegian arctic museum as "cluster of glowing beacons"
American firm Rand Elliott Architects has designed a new home for the Oklahoma Contemporary art centre covered in 16,800 extruded aluminium fins. More about Zigzagging aluminium walls wrap Oklahoma Contemporary Arts Center
Scaly aluminium cladding and projecting glass boxes wrap around Frank Gehry's Luma Arles tower, which is nearing completion in the south of France. More about Frank Gehry's twisting Luma Arles tower nears completion in France
Angled white walls will mark the entrance to underground contemplation spaces at Herzog & de Meuron's roadside Autobahnkirche chapel in Switzerland.
More about Herzog & de Meuron designs motorway chapel in Switzerland
Design studio Formafantasma has created a display for the Rijksmuseum's Baroque in Rome exhibition that will be taken apart and recycled afterwards. More about Formafantasma designs recyclable displays for Rijksmuseum exhibition
New construction images of the Renzo Piano-designed Academy Museum of Motion Pictures have emerged, which actor Tom Hanks revealed at the Oscars will open this year. More about Renzo Piano's Academy Museum of Motion Pictures nears completion in Los Angeles
A 1980s building designed by the late architect IM Pei to house Indiana University's art collection has received a sensitive update by Ennead Architects and architect Susan T Rodriguez that includes a new skybridge. More about IM Pei's Eskenazi Museum renovated with subtle additions in Indiana
Tchaikovsky Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre by wHY Architecture will be built on the bank of the Kama River in Perm, Russia, near the Ural mountains. More about wHY Architecture reveals design for opera house in Russia
American studio LMN Architects has renovated and expanded a 1930s, art deco-style museum in Seattle, making sure to preserve "the architectural legacy of the historic building". More about LMN Architects creates sensitive addition for Asian art museum in Seattle
Architecture practice Playze and design firm Schmidhuber covered the Ningbo Urban Planning Exhibition Center in eastern China in a skin of pale green glazed ceramic tiles. More about Pale green ceramic tiles cover exhibition centre in China
An overhanging canopy shades the cascading exhibition spaces and outdoor terraces that make up Shigeru Ban's gallery at the Tainan Art Museum. More about Photos reveal Shigeru Ban's Tainan Art Museum building in Taiwan
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Tadao Ando has released visuals of the He Art Museum in Shunde, China, which opens later this year. More about Tadao Ando reveals design for He Art Museum in China
OMA New York, led by Shohei Shigematsu, has revealed its design for galleries inside the Denver Art Museum designed by famed Italian architect Gio Ponti. More about OMA unveils design galleries in Gio Ponti's Denver Art Museum
Sudraba Arhitektüra has reinforced the dilapidated shell of an abandoned 20th-century railway warehouse in Riga and turned it into a concert hall. More about Steel and glass exoskeleton transforms abandoned warehouse into concert venue
Bez + Kock Architekten used a bridge to connect an extension and a 17th-century museum in Arnsberg, Germany, forming the Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia. More about Bridge links historic German museum to travertine-clad extension