Cultural
MAD’s sinuous Harbin Opera House completes in north-east China
New photos offer a closer look around Jean Nouvel’s Philharmonie de Paris
Pale travertine walls frame Cour et Jardin cultural centre by Atelier Fernandez & Serres
LA’s Petersen Automotive Museum reopens with KPF-designed metal-ribbon facade
Studio Marco Vermeulen adds grass blanket over rooftop pyramids of Dutch island museum
Brown + Brown transforms derelict stone buildings into boatbuilding workshop
Trio of geometric forms by Shift Architecture Urbanism form new Dutch museum complex
KSP Jürgen Engel Architekten wins competition to design Shenzhen Art Museum and Library
S-shaped extension links two sides of Copenhagen’s Mariehøj Kulturcenter
OMA wins competition to design huge Manchester arts venue The Factory
Old English church transformed into a theatre by Foster Wilson Architects
REX Architecture to replace Gehry on World Trade Center performing arts centre job
Thomas Heatherwick to redesign home of New York Philharmonic orchestra
China “can’t buy culture” with museum boom, say critics
Wandel Lorch completes chapel with bulging brickwork in Hamburg docklands
OMA’s Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired Faena Forum takes shape in Miami Beach
Julien De Smedt’s angular concrete youth centre in Lille features a colourful striped wall
Second world war memorial mausoleum nears completion at Polish massacre site
Mu Xin Art Museum by OLI Architecture sits over a lake in eastern China
Estudio Beldarrain uses reclaimed railway sleepers to extend Spanish library
Daniel Libeskind designs angular white concrete and glass museum for Lithuanian art
Berger & Berger uses white concrete and marble to create muted interiors for Collection Lambert
Creationist theme park in Kentucky to feature giant wooden ark building
