The Royal Academy of Arts in London has unveiled ambitious plans for a new architecture centre and awards programme "to deepen the public's understanding of architecture and to inspire the profession", thanks to a seven-figure donation. More about Royal Academy announces new "permanent home" for architecture as part of Chipperfield renovation
Japanese architect Tadao Ando has revealed his plans to convert Paris' Bourse de Commerce building into a museum that will host one of the world's largest contemporary art collections. More about Tadao Ando to convert Paris stock exchange into art gallery
Persimmon Hills Architects has transformed an illegal sex shop into a dramatic wedge-shaped micro-studio and gallery space in Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture. More about Sex shop converted into tiny Japanese art gallery by Persimmon Hills Architects
Today, 1 July 2017, is Canada's 150th birthday and we've pulled together six contemporary cultural buildings in the country to mark the occasion. They include a white granite museum, a music centre of huge towers clad in bronze tiles and a gallery in the forest. More about Six Canadian cultural buildings on 150th Canada Day
The museum proposed by filmmaker George Lucas could finally come to fruition now Los Angeles city officials have given it the go-ahead. More about LA officials unanimously approve George Lucas museum in "slam dunk" decision
London firm Stanton Williams has renovated and extended the Musée d'arts de Nantes, adding a series of extensions including a monolithic structure wrapped in stone and translucent marble to the beaux-arts building. More about Stanton Williams completes renovation of beaux-arts museum in Nantes with stone and marble extension
Stirling Prize-winning architect Amanda Levete and her firm AL_A have completed a new porcelain-tiled entrance and underground exhibition hall at the Victoria and Albert Museum. More about AL_A completes tile-covered entrance and subterranean gallery for London's V&A museum
The new Broadway Malyan-designed RIBA North has opened its doors on the Liverpool Waterfront in northern England, with an exhibition of architectural drawings of unbuilt proposals for the city. More about RIBA North architecture centre opens on Liverpool's Mann Island
New York architecture studio Diller Scofidio + Renfro has released new images of its spiralling US Olympic Museum in Colorado Springs, as construction on the project officially starts. More about Diller Scofidio + Renfro's US Olympic Museum breaks ground
We're continuing our look back at Frank Lloyd Wright's most important projects, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the American architect's birth last week. Next is Unity Temple, the Prairie-style concrete church that he considered to be his first contribution to modern architecture. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple was the "first expression" of modern architecture
A tilted and fractured black box that emerges from a public square in the Chinese city of Harbin contains display areas dedicated to telling the story of war crimes committed during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. More about Sloping black volumes penetrate public square at Harbin's Exhibition Hall of Crime Evidences
This angular museum in the forest was completed by Canadian firm Patkau Architects to house a private collector's artwork, and creates an elevated promenade through the trees that leads to various gallery spaces. More about Pitched roofs and wooden slats characterise Audain Art Museum by Patkau Architects
Our week of celebrating the 150th anniversary of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's birth by examining his most important projects ends with the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum in New York, which he designed as a spiral ramp for viewing avant-garde artwork. More about Frank Lloyd Wright subverted typical art-gallery layouts with spiral Guggenheim museum
Construction has begun on a wedge-shaped building by American architect Steven Holl for the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, which will provide a new entry point to the campus. More about Steven Holl's curvy-roofed addition to Houston arts museum breaks ground
Images have emerged of a new arts and culture centre by Foster + Partners and Heatherwick Studio, which forms part of a new financial quarter the two firms are building on Shanghai's waterfront. More about Foster and Heatherwick complete Shanghai theatre with curtain-like facade
Two hundred architecture students from a Lausanne university designed and built this events pavilion in Zurich, using lengths of timber to create a towering staircase, undulating seating and projection screens. More about Swiss architecture students design and build wooden events pavilion beneath Zurich overpass
In celebration of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's 150th birthday this week, we're looking back at five of his most pioneering projects. Next up is the Hollyhock House, which was influenced by the style of seventh-century Mayan temples. More about Frank Lloyd Wright's Hollyhock House is an early example of Mayan Revival architecture
These new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li reveal the "pixelated" forms of the Guardian Arts Center by Büro Ole Scheeren as it nears completion in Beijing. More about Photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li provide first look at Ole Scheeren's Guardian Arts Center in Beijing
Architecture firm Caruso St John has been named among the winners of the 2017 RIBA Regional Awards for its renovation and extension of Herbert Rowse's art deco Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. More about Caruso St John's Liverpool Philharmonic Hall refurbishment revives an art deco masterpiece
Diller Scofidio + Renfro has completed the first stage of its renovation of New York's Museum of Modern Art, and has revealed details of its plans to extend into Jean Nouvel's 53W53 residential tower. More about MoMA unveils first phase of major overhaul by Diller Scofidio + Renfro