Sufi whirling dancers and Japanese bamboo baskets were among the references for this sculptural temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini Architects. More about Bahá’í temple in Chile by Hariri Pontarini features torqued wings made of steel and glass
Peter Zumthor has released new images of his proposals for Los Angeles County Museum of Art revealing that, in contrast to his early designs, the Swiss architect has opted for light tones for the building's exterior. More about Peter Zumthor ditches the black for his LACMA expansion plans
Polycarbonate panels run along the base of this gallery in São Paulo by local architects Metro, flooding the space with natural light during the day and transmitting light from within at night. More about Translucent panels create glowing facade for São Paulo gallery by Metro
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma has completed a new complex for an urban garden in Portland, Oregon, that features a central courtyard and buildings topped with pagoda-style, green roofs. More about Kengo Kuma's major expansion of Portland Japanese Garden opens
These photographs capture the jagged roofline of the museum that Snøhetta has designed at the Lascaux Caves in France, to frame a huge replica of some of the world's most famous prehistoric cave paintings. More about New photographs reveal Snøhetta's Lascaux IV Caves Museum in southern France
Thousands of shimmering ceramic discs cover the stilted volumes of Renzo Piano's Centro Botín art gallery, which stands on the docks in the Spanish city of Santander. More about Renzo Piano completes stilted art gallery on Santander waterfront
Belgian photographer Jan Kempenaers has documented a series of second world war memorials across Europe, from a neglected lattice-wrapped library to the star-shaped entrance to a fortress. More about Jan Kempenaers documents Soviet-era war memorials in black and white photo series
Work has officially started on Frank Gehry's plans to "unclog the arteries" of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a major renovation that will transform the layout of the historic building. More about Frank Gehry's Philadelphia Museum of Art renovation breaks ground
RIBA has revealed its new Broadway Malyan-designed architecture centre for northern England, which opens on Liverpool's waterfront this summer. More about RIBA set to open dockside architecture centre in Liverpool this June
American architecture firm Bruner/Cott has completed the latest stage in transforming a former textile factory into the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. More about Bruner/Cott further expands MASS MoCA art museum in the Berkshires
Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects designed this theatre complex in Hjørring, Denmark, as a series of Corten steel cubes, but has covered some of the rusty walls behind a layer of frosted glass. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen pairs frosted glass with weathering steel for Vendsyssel Theatre
John McAslan + Partners and Triad Architects have built a cathedral on the edge of a tea plantation outside Nairobi, Kenya, featuring a tiled and angled roof lined with wooden slats. More about Huge inclined roof spans cathedral built by John McAslan + Partners on Kenyan tea plantation
Perforated-aluminium screens zigzag around the walls of this cylindrical arts museum in Shanghai, which was designed by Wutopia Lab and features a 1970s-style rockery. More about Pleated shutters enclose cylindrical enamelware museum and cultural centre by Wutopia Lab
OMA has used sprayed concrete, polycarbonate and movable walls to transform four warehouses on Dubai's Alserkal Avenue into a cultural centre. More about OMA's first project in Dubai is a cultural centre with moving eight-metre-high walls
Portions of Zaha Hadid's residential building in New York are set to become art galleries, while more exhibition spaces designed by Studio MDA will also be created underneath the adjacent High Line elevated park. More about High Line Nine galleries to surround Zaha Hadid's New York condos
OMA has completed an events centre on a former shipyard in Shanghai, which features a mesh facade and an exposed steel structure intended to reference the hulls of boats once built there. More about OMA completes industrial-style exhibition centre in old Shanghai shipyard
A+Awards: this year's Pritzker Prize-winning studio RCR Arquitectes is behind this steel-clad museum in France, which also earned the Catalan firm an Architizer A+Award. More about RCR Arquitectes forms Soulages Museum from linked weathering-steel boxes
These photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li show the monumental form of IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art, eight years after the building completed in Doha, Qatar. More about IM Pei's Museum of Islamic Art captured in new photographs by Yueqi Jazzy Li
This museum on the site of a former French military and internment camp near Perpignan comprises a 240-metre-long concrete block with large openings puncturing its gently inclined roof. More about Rudy Ricciotti sinks Rivesaltes Memorial Museum in furrow at former French military camp
Monks perform levitation over a huge wind tunnel at this amphitheatre, which was designed by Latvian studio Mailītis Architects for a mountain range in central China. More about Wind tunnel allows monks to fly above Mailītis Architects' amphitheatre in rural China