Snøhetta has unveiled its plans to transform an abandoned paper mill blocking a view of Oregon City's Willamette Falls and waterfront into a cultural complex looped by an elevated pathway. More about Snøhetta set to overhaul former paper mill to offer views of Oregon waterfall
This museum near the Chinese city of Ürümqi features curved and textured walls and roofs, incorporating skylights and wonky windows that offer views of the nearby mountains. More about Museum in China designed to look like a "stone rolled down from the mountain"
Southwark Town Hall in south London has been renovated and repurposed to accommodate student housing and a mixed-use arts hub, including a theatre contained in a folded tile-clad extension. More about Jestico + Whiles converts town hall into student halls with iridescent tile-covered theatre
A+Awards: a staircase lined in bright green spirals up the middle of this Architizer A+Award-winning cultural centre in Norway, partially visible through its metal-mesh cladding. More about Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter's Cultural Center Stjørdal features a lime green spiral staircase
Renzo Piano Building Workshop has completed the Château La Coste Art Gallery, a sunken exhibition space topped by sails, which is set among the grape vines of a winery in Aix-en-Provence, France. More about Renzo Piano sinks sail-covered art gallery into Aix-en-Provence vineyard
Irish studio Heneghan Peng has completed a museum dedicated to Palestinian culture in the city of Birzeit, featuring a faceted stone exterior and terraced landscaping that references the region's rural landscape. More about Heneghan Peng sets limestone-clad Palestinian Museum among angular landscaped terraces
Stanley Saitowitz's firm Natoma Architects has created a Hillel House for Philadelphia's Drexel University, with a red brick facade designed to reference the branched lampstands used in Jewish homes and temples, as well as the striated garments worn during prayer. More about Brickwork facade modelled on "abstract menorah" fronts Jewish community centre by Natoma Architects
Bennetts Associates has renovated a 1930s cinema and added a brick, frosted-glass and copper extension to create this cultural centre in Chester, England. More about Bennetts Associates converts Art Deco cinema into cultural centre in northern England
Beijing-based Arch Studio has completed a Buddhist shrine near the city of Tangshan, featuring subterranean concrete spaces that open up to views of a nearby river and planted courtyards. More about Arch Studio carves concrete Buddhist shrine into a grassy mound in Hebei
A+Awards: California firm FOG Studio worked with the residents of East Palo Alto to design this bayside community centre and exhibition space, another winner at the 2016 Architizer A+Awards. More about FOG Studio's Cooley Landing centre provides facilities for Bay Area wetland reserve
Mexico and the US celebrate Cinco de Mayo today, commemorating the Mexican Army's victory over the French in 1862. To mark the occasion, we've pulled together five of the country's best contemporary museum buildings, including projects by Toyo Ito and David Chipperfield. More about Five of Mexico's best new museum buildings
Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has revealed designs for a trio of new buildings at the Renzo Piano-designed Fondation Beyeler art gallery in Riehen, Basel. More about Peter Zumthor unveils extension plans for Renzo Piano's Fondation Beyeler in Basel
The first images and models of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects' plans for the Obama Presidential Library in Chicago have been revealed. More about Obama Presidential Library concept design unveiled in Chicago
Perforated metal surfaces form a white "veil" around the main hall of this chapel designed by Neri&Hu for a hotel complex near the Chinese city of Suzhou. More about Neri&Hu's Suzhou Chapel combines textured brick base with ethereal white cube
Spanish Zooco Estudio has completed a complex of granite-clad buildings in the city of Verín that come together to form an arts centre for the Galician region. More about Zooco Estudio uses granite to unify disparate blocks of Gallician arts centre
Rows of perforated aluminium shades intended to represent the feathers of an eagle shield the facade of this concrete and glass church in the Taiwanese city of Tainan. More about "Feather-like" screens front church in Taiwan by MAYU Architects
The American Institute of Architects has honoured IM Pei's renovation of the Musée du Louvre in Paris with an award during the organisation's national convention, the same week that the Chinese-American architect is celebrating his 100th birthday. More about IM Pei's Grand Louvre receives AIA 25-year award
Work is almost complete on a sunken extension to the Tate's seaside art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, which is set to open to the public later this year. More about Jamie Fobert's cliffside extension to Tate St Ives nears completion
Red concrete walls frame a chasm leading to a memorial inside Warsaw's barbican, which commemorates the thousands of Polish citizens murdered by the Soviet secret police during the second world war. More about BBGK Architekci uses stained concrete walls to create Katyn Museum inside Warsaw barbican
Kengo Kuma & Associates has revealed plans to create a modern art museum in a former wood market in Turkey, which will be made up of cluster of slatted timber blocks. More about Kengo Kuma unveils stacked wooden box design for Turkish art museum