Cultural
Mecanoo completes rock-like Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi
Diébédo Francis Kéré designs UNESCO museum for stolen artefacts
Renzo Piano Building Workshop designs pearlescent opera house on Hanoi lake
Asif Khan transforms Soviet cinema into “cloud-like” cultural centre in Almaty
Carlo Ratti unveils design for Grand Fendika Cultural Center in Addis Ababa
Burr Studio converts Madrid warehouse into skylit events space
Snøhetta and Benthem Crouwel Architects design Dutch city hall with “powerful silhouette”
Foster + Partners’ Zayed National Museum revealed ahead of December opening
WAU Design completes cultural centre to preserve heritage of town in Guangzhou
Photos of Thailand’s first international contemporary art museum revealed
Serie Architects adds “memorable and timeless” hall to Indian monastery
Herzog & de Meuron’s Tate Modern was the most significant building of 2000
Timber museum to be Kéré Architecture’s first cultural project in Germany
Atelier Vago transforms Tuscan chapel into “house for art”
SANAA completes Taichung Green Museumbrary in Taiwan
Interlinked geometric shapes form Tadao Ando-designed National Museum of Uzbekistan
Forma revives Soviet-era exhibition hall in Kyiv “without erasing its character”
MVRDV adds orange stairs to Shanghai cement factory
Atelier Alter Architects tops Sunner Museum in China with curved green roofs
Sp(r)int Studio shelters Viking ruins in Iceland with polycarbonate roof
Zaha Hadid Architects designs starfish-like cultural centre in Italy
Zaha Hadid Architects references magnetic forces for Serbian mill conversion
Zaha Hadid Architects unveils sweeping culture centre for China