Danish firm Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects has revealed its competition-winning designs for a new library in Shanghai featuring bands of glazing and wood-lined reading rooms. More about Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects chosen to design Shanghai's new city library
Triangular facets of stone and shimmering glass provide the irregular form of Coop Himmelb(l)au's Museum of Contemporary Art and Planning Exhibition, which is now complete in Shenzhen. More about Coop Himmelb(l)au combines flat and curving forms at huge Shenzhen art complex
This Buddhist retreat by Walters & Cohen Architects features a cluster of pitched-roof structures arranged around tranquil courtyards in the English countryside. More about Colonnades frame landscaped courtyards at Buddhist retreat in rural England
When furnishing Herzog & de Meuron's £163-million Elbphilharmonie concert hall in Hamburg, local architect Daniel Schöning and design firm Studio Besau-Marguerre opted for a monochrome colour palette to keep the focus on the surrounding architecture. More about Herzog & de Meuron's Elbphilharmonie concert hall finished with monochrome furniture
Danish architecture studio CEBRA has been appointed to create an underground visitor centre for a hill that has hosted some of the most important speeches in Denmark's history. More about CEBRA plans subterranean visitor centre for historic Skamlingsbanken hill
The Design Museum's new home inside the former Commonwealth Institute in London is an oak-heavy, hotel-like interior that is impressive, but could have been so much more exhilarating, according to critics. More about Critics underwhelmed by "clumsy" new Design Museum
Architectural designer John Pawson has transformed a second-world-war telecommunication bunker into an art and furniture museum in Berlin's Kreuzberg neighbourhood. More about John Pawson converts WW2 bunker into museum of Southeast Asian art in Berlin
A nose-shaped fountain spouts water from the facade of this museum by South Korean architect Moon Hoon, which is dedicated to the fictional character Pinocchio. More about Moon Hoon completes museum for a Pinocchio doll collector near Seoul
New photographs reveal the pebble-shaped forms of Snøhetta's cultural centre in Saudi Arabia, which is nearing completion ahead of its slated opening date in 2017. More about Snøhetta's King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture nears completion
The Design Museum's new £83-million London home by John Pawson and OMA is set to open next week at the former Commonwealth Institute building in Kensington. More about London's new Design Museum by John Pawson and OMA unveiled
The first exhibition to take place in London's new Design Museum explores a spectrum of issues that define our time, with installations by OMA, Hussein Chalayan and Neri Oxman. More about Design Museum's opening exhibition presents reactions to a complex world
New York firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Rockwell Group have designed a cultural building for the city's vast Hudson Yards development, with a sleeve that rolls out to create extra covered event space. More about Expandable cultural venue The Shed is being built in New York
A mid-century concrete structure in the heart of Mexico City has been renovated and extended to accommodate a contemporary art gallery. More about Riestra, Arnaud and Werz convert brutalist Mexico City building into OMR Gallery
Penda has set this auditorium for a Beijing art museum inside a wooden box, which features arched openings, and mirrors that reflect endless iterations of its curved cutaways. More about Mirrors reflect arched openings and steps inside wooden auditorium by Penda
These new images by architecture photographer Edmon Leong capture the light-filled galleries, cavernous lobby and large dimple in the honeycomb exterior of Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad museum in Los Angeles. More about Edmon Leong photographs Diller Scofidio + Renfro's The Broad in Los Angeles one year after opening
Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron has revealed its competition-winning plans to extend the Mies van der Rohe-designed Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, creating the Museum of the 20th Century. More about Herzog & de Meuron to extend Mies van der Rohe's Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin
Chinese studio Archi-Union Architects programmed robots to construct the undulating brick facade of this art gallery in Shanghai's West Bund district. More about Bricklaying robots create bulging brick facade for Shanghai arts centre
A colonnade of petal-shaped arches creates an illuminated walkway around the perimeter of this Muslim cultural centre designed by Chinese architect He Jingtang. More about Arched walkway wraps Muslim centre near Beijing by He Jingtang
These photographs provide a more detailed look at OMA's extension to the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, described as the largest cultural project in the Canadian province when it opened this summer. More about OMA's Quebec art museum extension shown in new images
Peter Zumthor has revealed that the visualisations for his new Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which proved controversial with Dezeen readers, do not show the building as he intends it. More about I don't like the LACMA renderings, says Peter Zumthor